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LIFE'S GREAT 

HEALING LAW 



BY 



Densie Herendeen 



With an Introduction by 
Hon. Nat Ward Fitz-Gerald 



The Elevator Publishing Company, 

Washington, D. C. 

1901. 







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THE LIBRARY OF 
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JUK. 8 1901 

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Copyright 1901 

BY 

Densie Herendeen 



To My 
Brothers and Sisters 

The sick and afflicted — Tr|e 
dowq-trodden and oppressed — To 
all wF]o are conscious or uqconscious of 
trjeir own indwelling God, this book 
is affectionately dedi- 
cated by the 
Author. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

CHAPTER I. 
The Laws of Nature 23 

CHAPTER II. 
Nature's Laws in Man 33 

CHAPTER III. 

Birth and Growth of Individual Con- 
sciousness 41 

CHAPTER IV. 

Magnify the Lord 56 

CHAPTER V. 
Practical Illustrations 66 

CHAPTER VI. 
Laws and Their Application 70 

CHAPTER VII. 

Laws of our Being- 80 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Controlling the Mind 89 

CHAPTER IX. 
How to Attain Desired Results 97 

CHAPTER X. 
"Seek and Ye Shall Find" 109 

CHAPTER XL 

How to Co-operate with God 119 

CHAPTER XII. 
Divine Suggestions 126 



INTRODUCTION 

BY 

Nat Ward Fitz-Gsrald. 

The world to-day, stands upon the threshold 
of a new birth ; pregnant with a mighty portent 
of good to the children of Adam — the sons and 
daughters of the living God. 

The midnight is already passed, and the 
dawn of this new day, heralding the new era, 
is upon us. All thinkers must see in the signs 
of the times, that this new era is at hand ; yet 
truth to-day is the same as when the morning 
stars sang together, and all the Sons of God 
shouted for joy. 

The new day, when religious strifes and con- 
tentions will cease — when the Fatherhood of 
God and the brotherhood of man shall be an ac- 
complished fact, heralds the advent of religious 
unity over all the race of man. 

Prophecy tells of this new era — when the in- 
habitant of the land shall not sav, I am sick, anv 
more — when sorrowing and crying shall be 
done away — when sickness shall be banished 
forever — leaving naught to molest or make 



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afraid — when all shall come to know God from 
the least unto the greatest — when the earth shall 
be filled with the knowledge of His glory, as 
the waters cover the sea. 

It is well known, that a vague unrest, 
pervades all nations, and all people. They 
seem allied with misery, disease, restlessness 
and despair. Inharmony permeates the very 
atmosphere. While blindly groping after the 
desirable, they clutch only the unsatisfying; 
seeking for peace, rest, contentment and happi- 
ness ; and grasping strife, turmoil, unhappiness, 
disease and misery. What is to be done ? 

If health, contentment and peace are desired, 
their source must be sought. Your soul must 
be attuned to vibrative unison, in harmony with 
the music of the spheres, and catch the rythm 
of the new song. The twentieth century is the 
culmination of the ages. Matter is becoming 
subordinate to soul and spirit. The shifting 
sands of time and sense have become like the 
dim visions of a forgotten dream. Physical 
life is becoming understood as only supported 
and sustained by Spirit, God. 

Many who are looking for the glow of the 
spiritual morning, faintly hear its approaching 
music, making sweeter and better their long- 
ing lives. 



Life's Great Healing Law. ir 

Would you, dear reader, keep pace with the 
march of events? Do you desire to be adjust- 
ed to the new order of things? Remember 
that the promise is, that what is hidden shall 
be revealed; for light is dispelling the night 
of ignorance. , The tallow-dip is supplanted 
by effulgence borrowed from the sun. Stage 
coaches have given way to palaces on wheels. 
Nahum's chariots of lightning rush through 
our streets. Electricity with its flashing- 
tongues of flame from storm clouds, that filled 
ignorance with terror, is the slave of man ; and 
by its power, men converse with each other in 
audible tones, though separated by hundreds 
of miles. 

While these mighty strides are being made 
in one direction— a veritable fulfillment of 
prophecy — equally great have been the steps in 
another direction, looking to the destruction 
of sin, disease and death, which is also a like 
fulfillment of the phophetic word. 

For centuries upon centuries, Adam's race 
has unavailingly sought happiness; wandering 
down the ages in search of what they have 
never found, — the fabled fountain of perennial 
youth — tapping every conceivable material 
fount in the vain hope that its waters would 
prove a panacea for all ills of the flesh. But 



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health and happiness through material means 
have been vainly sought; continuing forever 
to elude the grasp of man's frantic clutch. 

Disease, sin, misery and death, still stalk in 
our midst, and refuse to succumb to material 
methods. 

Where, oh where, is that 'hidden manna,' 
promised in sacred writ, to the hopeful and be- 
lieving in every age? 

Where is that open door to life and joy, 
which 'no man can shut, and through which 
the saved shall go no more out?' 

Where, oh where, is 'the tree of Life,' of 
which man was promised the right to partake ; 
and the leaves of which, 'were for the healing 
of the Nations?' 

How and where shall we children of Adam, 
"wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, 
and naked," find that promised elysian where 
we should not be hurt of the second death ? 

Must the cradle and the coffin go hand in 
hand as accompaniments of Adam's children, 
down the corridors of time, to all generations ? 

Shall the maw of death never be filled, but 
keep on demanding human food for its insatiate 
craw ? 

Shall we go on filling cradles forever, merely 
to keep grave-yards green ? 



Life's Great Healing Law. 13 

Shall the appetite of the coffin never be satis- 
fied? 

Shall this farce this lie, — of living to die, — 
never be stopped? 

Are the worries and torments of mortal life 
never to cease ? 

Do not the same conditions exist, surround- 
ing Adam's race of sin, disease and death, as 
existed thousands of years ago, in spite of the 
never ending struggle of all races to bring 
about a different condition of things ? 

Has not the era already dawned, that is de- 
manding and will strive, to bring about a 
change ? 

Has not the time arrived to test the spiritual 
remedies, which God has promised, through all 
.the ages, to them that do His Will? 

Yes, yes, a million times yes! That time 
has come — or this book could not have been 
written. 

Hope, that has been whispering to Love, 
through the ear of death, in all generations, 
has at last been heard and recognized. 
Standing erect, it voices in audible tones to 
a waiting world, the realization of its dreams, 
in the conscious conviction of the possibility 
of eternal life, here and now; and defiantly 



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throws back into the teeth of disease and death, 
the lie, told to our first parents. 

Life, not death, is the watchword, for all the 
race. 

Life:, with its Mighty Healing Law, 
has been uncovered, and presented to a waiting 
world, in this brave book; written by a noble 
brave, God-fearing, God-loving and God-living 
woman. Read it; oh, waiting, longing souls! 
Gird your loins like a mighty man to run a race ! 
Bid fears of fleshly foibles and failures, to flee 
forever. 

Bid dead hopes arise to renewed life and 
vigor. Snatch the mask of death from the 
cradle and the grave, and canopy life with the 
robes of immortality. 

This book, when understood, will redeem 
the race from sin, disease and death. It will 
bring the flush of health to the cheek 
of dispair. It will drive out the devil and dis- 
ease, and replace in their stead God and Glory. 
It will answer the cries and prayers that have 
ascended from wailing millions through long 
ages of agony. 

Its words sing to the heart, with that match- 
less rythm, that carries conviction of the truth 
of the mighty facts it sets forth. No one can 
read it, without experiencing a beautiful and 



Life's Great Healing Law. 1 5 

harmonious uplifting in mind, ennobling in 
soul, and strengthening of body. Its words 
when understood, cannot be forgotten ; for they 
vibrate with a vital and living force, which is 
the Eternal Truth. 

They will bid the tide of time, in the mem- 
ory of man to roll backwards, until he may 
raise the curtain, viewing the scene of the first 
promise made by God to man; and catch the 
truth of its meaning — " dominion. Dominion, 
Power, Authority, God-hood, Son-ship, Eter- 
nal Life, without which ho man can know 
God. 

This brave book reiterates the teachings of 
the Nazarene, which proclaimed that the 
"Kingdom of God is within you." That this 
God is ever present, and omnipotent, and is to 
be obeyed, worshipped and loved, with all one's 
heart, soul and strength. It teaches that Jesus 
lived His life on the earth, and saved mankind, 
by showing them the way to destroy sin, sick- 
ness and death; thus fulfilling God's law. To 
save not a few, only in Palestine, but all the 
race ; save from bondage to flesh, From sin and 
suffering, at all times and places, and under 
all conditions, through all the ages. 

In His day, the sick were healed ; the sinner 
cleansed, and the dead raised. He taught that 



1 6 Life's Great Healing Law. 

God was Love. He taught, toiled and suffered, 
that men might learn that Love was, and is, 
Supreme. 

He taught the destruction of the works of 
all evil — through God alone. That man must 
first seek God's help, before it would be given. 

He taught that to seek God, was to find Him ; 
which meant salvation not after death, in 
realms beyond the skies, but freedom here and 
now from every human ill. The Christianity 
of the world, without the healing of the sick, 
was not what He preached and left to man- 
kind. 

He taught that they who walk with God, are 
empowered now to destroy evil, because it is 
contrary to an ever-present good. He com- 
manded His followers to preach the gospel, and 
heal the sick; and the record shows that they 
did the work: — the promise being to all who 
do God's will. 

This book takes up this line of teaching, and 
shows how it is that Life does all healing ; and 
that your own individual life is the Real Man, 
made in God's Image, who can never be sick, 
suffer or die. 

It shows that we are spiritual, harmonious 
and eternal, because we are co-existent with 
God the Father, born of Him, not of the flesh, 



Life's Great Healing Law. 17 

and are as indestructible as this Infinite Pa- 
rent. It shows that we must, by a birth of 
consciousness, become masters; subordinating 
the mortal body and its discords, to the reality 
of a spiritual existence. 

This book shows how God's Power is the 
same yesterday, today and forever; and that 
today, the same miracles by the same laws, are 
being wrought that were performed in Judea 
nineteen hundred years ago. 

This book teaches that we are dependent for 
life, health and happiness, upon God, and God 
alone ; and that so long as men look not to God, 
but depend upon material and physical condi- 
tions to determine where, when and for how 
long a time they shall be well and happy ; they 
will be sick, sinful and miserable. 

It teaches that an all-loving, all-wise God. 
does not make men sick and sinful, and visit 
death upon them: that the command "be ye 
PERFECT/' means the attainment of perfec- 
tion through the overcoming of sin, sickness 
and death, by the consciousness of the Spirit's 
Mastery over the material. 

This book teaches that the Universe is gov- 
erned by law r , — by one God, one Law, one Life, 
one Power. That nature's laws are God's 
Laws. That man has unlimited power to con- 



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trol nature's laws through growth into the 
higher consciousness; and that through this 
growth or process, by the law of suggestion 
we are shown how to come into conjunction 
with God. It teaches the law of harmony and 
perfection; proving that all Power belongs to 
Life, and how the whole man is controlled by 
suggestion; thus revealing the necessity for 
correct thinking. It shows that time and space 
are annihilated through the consciousness of 
the all-present, omnipotent Power of God. 
That the sick can be and are healed by the ob- 
servance of God's laws, in force to-day, the 
same as when Jesus walked the shores of Gali- 
lee, healing the sick and calling forth to life 
the dead from out the tomb. 

Read this book — Study its pages — learn the 
mighty principles herein set forth — how that 
Life controls all and is the master and not the 
servant of death : — and this mighty fact, when 
once imbedded in your, consciousness, will roll 
the stone from your grave away, loosing you 
from your limitations and preparing you for a 
walk with God. 



PREFACE. 

"The world does not require so much to be 
informed, as to be reminded. We all have ac- 
quired much knowledge, through association 
with nature, that we are unconscious of pos- 
sessing; because we have neglected to use or 
apply it. Most of us are familiar with the laws 
of nature, but never having taken the time to 
think of their application to our individual 
lives, we have failed in understanding their 
relation to and their workings within and upon 
the human form. 

There are no laws given, or statements made 
in this book but such as every student will feel 
at once, that he has already known. The work 
is only published to refresh the memory, and to 
remind us of the great importance of living 
by these laws — which pertain wholly to hi$£, 
and the power which it exercises over matter. 

This book is not to be read and laid aside, 
as most books are. It should be studied by all 
who desire to live in accordance with Lite's 
Great Healing Law. 

It should be as carefully studied, as the arith- 
metic is studied, by those who desire to learn 



20 Life's Great Healing Law. 

the science of numbers. To fit ourselves for 
making a practical use of the multiplication 
table, in the business affairs of life, we did not 
simply read it over and lay it aside, but we stud- 
ied it, repeated it, until every truth it enunciates 
became fixed, indelibly in the mind ; where they 
have ever since remained, ready to respond to 
our call. 

And so it is, with the great principles stated 
in this book. They should be read over, stud- 
ied, repeated and reiterated, until the conscious 
Truths which they contain, take hold of the 
student. 

We all know that these principles require 
more than a casual reading, in order to under- 
stand them. 

The Science of Life, based on God, is of far 
more vital importance to the human soul than 
is the science of numbers, based on the prin- 
ciples of mathematics. We can live without 
the science of numbers, but we only exist with 
out the science of Life. 

Laws and principles must be studied and un- 
derstood, if we would apply them. 

This book is not the promulgation of a the- 
ory, but of a mighty Law; a law which is re- 
lated to, and connected with many laws, the 
principle of which, when understood and ap- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 21 

plied, will not only heal all manner of diseases/ 
but will redeem the race. 

We claim no new discovery, but simply pre-' 
sent in our own way, an old truth, which was 
manifest in the first plant, that ever appeared 
on our planet. 

This book is the outgrowth of years of study, 
teaching, healing and the practical application 
of the principles set forth in its pages, which 
have invariably proved to be the healing law 
of life. 

In writing this book, it has been our con- 
stant aim to simplify, — making the subject as 
plain as possible, omitting that which might 
tend to mystify and discourage the student on 
these lines : — because many have been mysti- 
fied, and made to feel after years of reading 
or study, that they were incapable of grasping 
these truths, — when the fault lay not in them- 
selves, but in the way this subject had been pre- 
sented to them. 

Should it be thought that the terms which 
are commonly applied to Deity are used too fre- 
quently, it must be borne in mind that it was 
written for no other purpose, than to reveal to 
man his own Divine nature. 

In speaking of the Divine, we can only use 
the terms that define or belong to the Infinite, 



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whether He be in man, or in the Heavens; 
hence we have used no words too strong to 
express our meaning. 

Strong language is the expression of Strong 
thoughts. Strong thoughts can only emanate 
from strong souls ; and strong souls draw their 
strength from God in whom they are centered, 
as a tree draws its strength from the soil, in 
which it is rooted. We sincerely hope that 
*'Life's Great Healing Law," may reach every 
sick and hungry soul, who is ready for it ; and 
cause them to change their thinking from sick- 
ness to health; from fear to confidence; from 
death to life; from faith in man, to faith in 
God. We desire to assure the sick and dis- 
tressed, in every clime, the unhappy and op- 
pressed in every land, that a knowledge of and 
compliance with the laws herein set forth, will 
bring health, happiness and harmony, into their 
lives, here and now. 

Densie HerEndeen. 
Washington, D. C, May ist, 1901. 



CHAPTER I. 
The Laws of Nature. 

the one: law. 

There is but one Law in the universe, and 
that is the Law of God. All the iaws of nature 
are but branches of this one law ; for the Infinite 
Law is composed of many laws, as the tree is 
composed of many branches. 

For man to have a clear understanding of 
the nature and operation of any of these laws, 
he must understand where and how they are 
connected, and what part they play in the Great 
Whole. When he understands this, he has a 
faith that is rooted and grounded in God; the 
faith that works miracles : — a knowledge that 
so far transcends faith as it is generally under- 
stood, that it is indeed the wisdom of God. 

THE UNIVERSE IS GOVERNED BY LAW. 

All things are controlled by Law. All na- 
ture is formed according to law; and this law 



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is omnipotent, omniscient and omrlipresent, in 
its reality ; for it is God working. This law of 
God, is the Life of God, and is the activity of 
the one Infinite, Omnipresent, Universal Power, 
which God is. 

Then, for us to have an understanding of the 
way in which God works, of the activity and 
nature of life, is, for us to understand the laws 
of nature. For man to understand the laws 
of nature, in the full meaning of what the word 
understand, implies, is for him to be able to 
control the forces of nature, in proportion to 
his degree of understanding ; to co-operate with 
the Laws of God, in proportion to his knowl- 
edge and faith, in those laws ; or in other words, 
to exercise the Dominion which was given him, 
"Over all the earth/' 

THE LAW OF HEALING. 

The fact that there ever has been a case of 
healing on our planet, is proof that there is a 
law back of it, the harmonious operation of 
which caused the healing to be. The very fact 
that people have been healed from time imme- 
morial, in different ways and by various meth- 
ods, is proof that there is an Infinite Law back 
of it all, which in some way has been co-opera- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 25 

ted with either, consciously or unconsciously, 
by the healer. 

We will not take time to discuss the many 
methods in vogue, that affect the cure of dis- 
eases in the world, for our desire in this 
work, is to reveal to you the law that does all 
healing. We should seek to understand the 
surest and quickest way by which man can 
come into conjunction with this Infinite Law 
of God. We should seek to understand how 
he can control the forces of nature : — the surest 
and most desirable means, by which he can be- 
come conscious of his ability to exercise hi? 
God-given powers. 

ONK LAW, ONE POWER, ONE LIFE. 

The great underlying truth on which all heal- 
ing is based, is the fact that there is but one 
God ; one Power ; one Law and one Life. Life 
is the operation of this power. Law is the 
method or manner, by and through which it 
operates ; and God is the Infinite Operator. 

The Universe and all that is contained there- 
in, is formed by this one Life; controlled and 
acted upon by this one Law; filled and per- 
fected, by this Infinite Power. And so man, 
and all that is within him, is formed by this 
same Life, controlled and acted upon by this 



26 Life's Great Healing Law. 

same Law, healed and perfected by this same 
Power. 

That which is true of the universe is true of 
man. 

That which is true of nature is true of man. 

All nature is reproduced in man; hence all 
laws, functions and forces of nature, are opera- 
tive and active in man. 

man's place in the great WHOLE. 

It is because man is a conscious being; be- 
cause he is an individual conscious entity, with 
power to move and do at will ; that he is greater 
than all that is external to him. He is more 
powerful than all nature ; because he has within 
himself, though latent, the power and ability to 
consciously control nature. 

Man's greatness, depends wholly on his con- 
sciousness. He is great only on those lines 
in which he is conscious of being master; or 
upon those in which he exercises his dominion. 

If, however, he can become conscious of his 
connection with the Great Whole — become con- 
scious of his connection with all life — con- 
scious of his innate ability and power to quicken 
and exhilerate it — retard and control its action 
— he is only beginning to take the place in the 
world, which it was destined for him to occupy. 



Life's Great Healing Law. 27 

It is by the use of man's reasoning powers, 
"his knowledge of right and wrong, and his in- 
timate connection, or conscious association 
with Life itself, that he will be enabled to heal 
all manner of diseases. 

GOD FORMS NATURE. 

Nature is what we see in the world as a re- 
sult of Life itself, and is the material manifes- 
tation of its activities. It is this Life within 
and behind all things, that causes them to be; 
and forms "Man of the dust of the earth." 

Then it follows, that the laws of nature, are 
the laws of life, and the laws of life are the laws 
of God ; every one of which is eternal and un- 
changeable in its mode of operation. 

THE LOWER KINGDOMS. 

Nature is divided into four kingdoms: — 
Mineral, vegetable, animal and human. Life 
is everywhere present, in each and all. It is 
through the functions that belong to life alone, 
that these kingdoms are enabled to exist. 

As has been truly said: "God sleeps in the 
mineral, breathes in the vegetable, moves in 
the animal and comes to consciousness in man ;" 
or in other words, life sleeps in the mineral, 



28 Life's Great Healing Law. 

breathes in the vegetable, moves in the animal, 
and comes to consciousness in man. 

The things that we see, are but the embodi- 
ment of the life which inhabits them. The dif- 
ferent kingdoms on our planet but reveal the 
different conditions or activities of this same 
life. 

All mineral life, when quickened and awak- 
ened, or through its quickening and awaken- 
ing, takes upon itself vegetable form; and 
through this activity becomes what we call 
vegetative or organic life. Thus, by this same 
law of progress, — this quickening and awak- 
ening process, — Life takes upon itself higher 
and higher forms, or more complex and in- 
tricate organisms, through which it manifests 
animal life, and then human life. It is to be 
through this same quickening and awakening 
process, that there is to come forth upon our 
planet the Divine life; for "the Kingdom of 
God is at hand." 

The functions of vegetative life, or that 
which constitutes its activity, are its powers 
of growth, repair and reproduction. Hence, 
wherever organic life is found, we find these 
three principles manifest ; for it is the nature of 
all life to grow, repair, and reproduce every 
organism, in which it is embodied. In the ani- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 29 

mal kingdom, we find these same functions, op- 
erating, and as they belong to the life, and not 
to matter, we find them always operative in all 
organic forms. 

That which causes the animal kingdom to be, 
separating and making it distinct from the veg- 
etable kingdom, is the function which belongs 
exclusively to animal life, and is locomotion, 
instinct and sensation. We must always keep 
thoroughly fixed in the mind, the fact, that the 
plant does not grow, but that the life grows the 
plant; that the animal does not move, but the 
life moves the animal. It is the nature of the 
life to repair and reproduce itself, and not the 
nature of matter. Sensation and instinct do 
not belong to the animal; but they do belong 
wholly to the life within the animal. 

It is through the use of these functions which 
belong to animal life alone, that it is enabled to 
control the vegetative forces within it. In other 
words, the life in the animal must use its pow- 
er^ of locomotion, following its instincts, in 
order to satisfy its sensations of hunger, before 
it can grow, repair or reproduce itself. 

THE BASIC LAW OF HEALING. 

The Life's forces, are manifest in vegetable 
structure. The Life's functions are manifest 



30 Life's Great Healing Law. 

in animal organisms ;• and the Life's faculties^ 
within and through the human form. 

It cannot be too strongly emphasized, that, 
as the life's forces in the animal, are used and 
controlled wholly by the animal functions, so 
must the life's faculties in man, or the human 
mind, wholly and completely use and control 
all the forces and animal functions, within his. 
own organism. 

This is the great fundamental law, on which 
all healing is based, viz. : that the highest mani- 
festation of life, operative in any kingdom on 
our planet, controls wholly and absolutely, all 
the functions and forces of life which have pre- 
ceded it, in the order of evolution; and which 
are operative and active within it. 

THE KINGDOM OF MAN. 

We will now consider man — the human 
kingdom — in whom is operative, all the forces 
and functions of life, or of nature, which have 
preceded him ; and which must be controlled by 
him, if he would be the perfect man that God 
intended him to be. It is through this law, 
that man, because of his rational, moral and in- 
spirational nature, is to control the vegetative 
forces and animal functions within himself. 

It is through man's reasoning on what is 



Life's Great Healing Law. 31 

right and wrong, as his inspirational nature 
reveals it to him — which is his direct conjunc- 
tion with life itself — that enables him to con- 
trol his locomotion, instinct and sensation, and 
his processes of growth, repair and reproduc- 
tion. 

Man has consciously trained himself to con- 
trol his power of locomotion. Through his 
reason, his feet carry him where he wishes to 
go and his hands perform the work which he 
desires accomplished; because, through his 
brain and nerves, which connect his mind with 
these members of the body, he is enabled to 
control them at will. 

In the same way he must control his sensa- 
tion, for every part of his body is permeated 
with the ramifications of the fine nerves, which 
are in turn connected with larger ones, until 
they reach the brain ; which is the organ of the 
mind. This shows us that through the same 
reasoning powers, and a conscious knowledge 
of what is true and what is false, or what we 
desire and do not desire, man can change and 
control his sensations, in exactly the same way, 
that he changes and controls his locomotion. 

It is because the members of the body are 
connected with the brain, that they are under 
the control of the mind. So it is in like man- 



32 Life's Great Healing Law. 

ner, because every part of the body is connected 
with the brain, that every part of it is under the 
control of the mind. The reason that we have 
both voluntary and involuntary functions in 
the body, is because the mind has never been 
trained to control the organs, as it has been 
trained to control the members. 

Teach the child from infancy its inability and 
the impossibility, of its accomplishing certain 
things, and it will never try ; until it begins to 
think for itself, and to have faith in its own 
ability to do them. 



CHAPTER II. 
Nature s Laws in Man. 

NATURES LAWS EMPHASIZED. 

We have thus far in this treatise, set forth 
the following fundamental truths. First, that 
life is everywhere present. Second, that life is 
God, working. Third, that the working, is 
according to fixed and unchangeable laws, 
which man is capable of understanding; and 
fourth, that all laws when understood, can be 
co-operated with, or used by man. 

Again, we have the facts clearly stated, that 
all forces, functions faculties and powers, be- 
long exclusively to the life that is embodied 
in the individual form that it is making. It is 
the life alone, in these individual forms, that 
grows, repairs, reproduces, moves, knows 
right from wrong, controls, feels and reasons; 
because it is connected with the great Life of 
the Universe, which is the Life of God. 

our mistake. 

We have been attributing to matter, the 



34 Life's Great Healing Law. 

power that alone belongs to life. We have 
been attributing to Caesar the power that be- 
longs to God. 

That we "Render unto Caesar, the things 
which are Caesar's, and to God, the things that 
are God's," is an absolute necessity. 

We say, the plants grow ; the animals move ; 
but when we stop to consider, we know that 
plants do not grow, but that they are grown; 
that animals do not move, but are moved. It 
is the life in each that performs the work. Our 
thoughts and words, should be in accordance 
with the truth of that of which we are thinking 
or speaking ; for the law is, "By thy words thou 
shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt 
be condemned." 

If the power belongs to God, then admit it, 
and cease attributing it to matter ; for it is only 
in this way, that we learn to know God, and 
become conscious of our connection with Him, 
"whom to know aright, is life eternal/' 

man's unlimited powers. 

It is because man is not conscious of his 
connection with this universal Power, that he 
has become limited, diseased, sickened and died. 
It is by and through his becoming conscious of 
his connection with this same universal Whole 



Life's Great Healing Law. 35 

— this abundance of life which surrounds him, 
and of which he has known nothing — that he 
will yet come to know, understand and realize, 
his unlimited powers. 

When man shall, as he will and must, come 
to a realization of his powers through knowing 
God, it will enable him to heal all manner of 
diseases, because it will establish him in the 
position which God ordained that he should oc- 
cupy; and thus enable him to use the powers 
that already belong to him ; because they were 
conferred upon him by the Infinite Father, 
hence his by Divine right. 

Of what use to man has been this God-given 
dominion? For him to be ignorant of his 
power, is it not the same as though he did not 
possess it ? He may be only a servant or slave, 
throughout his entire existence, because he is 
ignorant of his real true nature; but when he 
begins to see the truth of that which his true 
inheritance implies — begins to understand his 
power and ability to do and be — because of 
what he is — he willingly and gladly exchanges 
the life of servitude for one of mastery ; the life 
of weakness for one of Power. 

A MOST IMPORTANT TRUTH. . 

Another great fact of life which is proven to 



36 Life's Great Healing Law. 

us throughout all nature, and which we must 
ever keep before the mind, is, that all of these 
forces and functions of life, wherever operative 
and active, are working for the perfection of the 
organism in which they are found. It is a 
mighty fact, that all life — that the Infinite 
Universal Life itself, has but one aim and ob- 
ject; and that is, not only to grow and restore 
all organisms, but to continue to work within 
and upon them, until they are perfected. There 
is no cessation fronj the beginning to the finish, 
except what we may call rest periods, through 
different seasons of the year, in which all nature 
seems to sleep; but, is always awakened with 
renewed vigor, for everything is working to- 
ward the final finish : — toward the absolutely 
perfect. 

The life starts the little plant from the seed 
in the ground, brings it up into the open air 
and sunlight, shoots out its branches, strength- 
ens its limbs and then brings forth the blossom 
and fruit. In like manner, it starts the little 
animals in the world, growing and expanding 
their organisms, until they become mighty 
beasts of the fields and forests. 

By and through this same law an Infinite child 
is evolved and brought forth, into the world, 
fed and nourished, cultivated and educated, 



Life's Great Healing Law. 37 

until it stands forth a living, thinking self-con- 
scious entity. It is this self-consciousness 
that constitutes the difference between man and 
nature, and which will enable him to control 
nature. It is because of_his power to think 
that man is lifted not only above nature, but is 
to become conscious of all that is within and 
behind nature. 

We must first eradicate thoroughly from 
our minds, the idea of man's unworthiness ; of 
his littleness, of his inability to attain anything 
beyond that which his ancestors have acom- 
plished before him. 

The thought that our fore-fathers lives are 
good enough for us to live, should never be 
indulged for one moment by us; unless they 
finished the work that God gave them to do. 

Man should never be satisfied to leave this 
planet, until he has not only exercised, but cul- 
tivated and developed every God given func- 
tion, faculty and power, to its fullest extent. 

Man is not prying into the mysteries of God 
by studying and understanding His works : — 
His method and mode of operation — in other 
words, "His will concerning us." We too often 
excuse our ignorance, our mental laziness, by 
saying that these things are un-knowable, for- 
getting that "There is nothing covered, that 



38 Life's Great Healing Law, 

shall not be revealed ; neither hid, that shall not 
be known/' if man will but get near enough to 
the Infinite Heart, to see things as the Lord 
sees them, and to receive instructions from 
this Divine Master, thus enabling him to do 
things as God does them. 

The foregoing laws are but natural laws; 
revealing to us the way in which God does 
things throughout nature in a general sense; 
and also how He does them through and with 
man, in a particular sense. In other words, all 
the general laws of nature, are particularized 
in man ; and each one of us is in the process of 
becoming conscious of this particularization. 
That is, becoming conscious of the Universal 
Spirit, working in the individual. 

It is facts that we are seeking ; natural facts : 
— facts that pertain wholly to, and are the re- 
sult of these natural laws of our being : — f acts, 
that when seen and understood by us, we would 
be willing to stake our whole existence on the 
truth of their reality. 

THE TENDENCY OF LIFE TO HEAL. 

Many people have been cured through a blind 
faith in that which they believed would cure 
them, without any knowledge or understanding 
of the process involved; but curing and heal- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 39 

ing, are not the same. Curing, is only tem- 
porary relief, a change in conditions, a change 
of sensations ; while healing, is a consciousness 
born of the true knowledge of the Infinite in- 
working powers; the consciousness which 
grows and is strengthened; which is enlarged 
and broadened by this knowledge, until not only 
diseases are healed, but all other undesirable 
conditions are destroyed and overcome with 
them. 

The law of healing, is the most wonderful 
law of life. It is the great repairing process 
that we find throughout all nature. All the 
forces and powers of life work together for 
the advancement and perfection of this re- 
storing tendency ; this repairing process that we 
find carried on so extensively, minutely and 
omnipotently throughout all nature. This is 
the healing power of God.; and throughout the 
entire vegetable, animal and human kingdoms, 
God has not only shown us His ability to heal 
all organisms when diseased or injured, but 
His determination to do so. 

We find this healing tendency operative in 
man with re-doubled vigor — because in man is 
the co-operative faculty; the ability to con- 
sciously work with it, which thereby exhiler- 
ates, increases or magnifies it, to an unlimited 



4-0 Life's Great Healing Law. 

degree ; thus causing what is termed "instanta- 
neous healing.'' 

When man understands and knows that this 
law of his nature is God, working within hint, 
he will then have a consciousness of his power 
and ability to follow the injunction of the Mas- 
ter, of not only going into the world, and 
preaching the gospel to every creature, but of 
healing the sick, casting out demons, and rais- 
ing the dead. 

This command would not have been given by 
one who could and did consciously control all 
the forces of nature, had He not known that 
we were to become conscious of, and use, this 
same Power. In the study of life then, we not 
only see the law by and through which all these 
things can be accomplished, but we see the law 
which Jesus understood, when he said, "Greater 
things than these shall ye do!' 

"Except a man be born again," — born from 
the consciousness of matter and material con- 
ditions having control over him, into a con- 
sciousness of life, whereby understanding the 
laws and forces of nature, he controls all con- 
ditions external to and below himself, — "He 
cannot see the kingdom of God." 



CHAPTER III. 
Birth and Growth of Individual Consciousness. 

the: infinite; machine:. 

When the child is born into the world and 
placed in its cradle, there is nothing there but 
life and matter : — the life which formed the 
little body through its vegetative forces, and the 
material elements of which this form is com- 
posed. Within that tiny form is the Divine 
Mechanic, the Infinite Life itself; also the in- 
struments and the organs that it has not only 
invented, but has constructed and placed there 
for its own individual use. 

It is only beginning now, to use the machine. 
The little brain is commencing to act, for the 
first time ; and the wee lungs have only begun 
to take in and use the atmosphere. There has 
never yet been a particle of food taken into the 
little stomach. 

Although the whole machine is ready, like an 
Infinite locomotive, to start on its first run, — it 
has hardly commenced to move. 



42 Life's Great Healing Law. 

The Infinite Master who made it, lives within 
it. He is well equipped with all of His propell- 
ing powers; with all His reconstructing forces, 
and His intelligent manipulations, to do with it, 
and for it, exactly as He knows best. 

If He knows not how to repair it, after bring- 
ing it here, He surely knew not how to make it. 
But as it is made, and we look at the perfect 
little form, watch the wonderful breathing, the 
beating of the heart, the little eyes rolling 
around in their sockets, as yet unconscious of 
the wonders that lie before them; and as it 
takes its first nourishment, closes them and goes 
to sleep as naturally as though it had always 
done so — we cannot help but think of the per- 
fect intelligence, the Infinite love, and the abso- 
lute powers of life, that could construct such a 
wonderful piece of machinery. 

THE WRONG SUGGESTION. 

We watch the little mechanism from day to 
day as it grows, develops and becomes con- 
scious of the things around it. We see it tak- 
ing cold, the measles and the mumps; taking 
them just as it does the medicines that are 
poured into it; taking all the childrens' dis- 
eases, which we have been taught that every 
child must have: — and we think, "You poor 



Life's Great Heeding Low. 43 

little thing ! You have come into a hard world, 
and there is nothing but a. great struggle for 
life before you. If you survive without star- 
vation or the small pox, cancer, or being afflict- 
ed with some other dreadful thing, you will 
have done well ; but on the whole, it would have 
been much better for you, if you had never 
been born. There's nothing but trials, troubles, 
afflictions, sufferings and distresses before you 
in life — which is hard enough at best, — and 
God only knows what you will have to go 
through." 

Think of this, will you ? This is the way the 
little Infinite life is taught. This is the quality 
and character of the suggestions that are poured 
into it, from infancy to old age. Because 'it 
is the Infinite Master that dwells within — the 
Divine Musician — it can play every tune that 
is thus given it, on its own little harp. It com- 
mences by playing the cold, sneezing and cough- 
ing until its little strings are almost broken; 
then runs the cold into pneumonia, and winds 
up with scarlet fever; which leaves the poor 
little instrument, very much battered and badly 
worn, if not entirely disabled for life. 

In this w r ay it goes on, throughout its- entire 
life ; trying as best it may and can to repair and 
restore its own instrument. And yet, because 



44 Life's Great Healing Law. 

of its nature, because of the law of its being, 
it must carry out all' of the instructions that are 
given it. In other words, it must either play, 
or play at, every horrible tune that is called for,, 
by the clamoring mob around it. 

the; right suggestion. 

On the other hand, one should stand by and 
see that little form come into the world, know- 
ing that no power under the heavens or in the 
universe, could construct and bring it forth, but 
God Himself. One must also know that its 
Infinite Maker, has His own plan, His own 
purpose — and His own idea that He desires to 
carry out with and for it, the same as He had 
His idea and purpose in making it. To such 
an one, is known the fact, that God will not stop 
His effort, will not cease from His labor, until 
He has finished the work which He has only 
just begun. 

To one who can thus see behind the veil of 
flesh — if the Divine Suggestions only, are given 
to this little one — what a vastly different life, 
is open for it. In its little form would be seen 
to be, only the Infinite Maker, the Divine Mas- 
ter, God Himself, working. 

This Infinite being should be seen, not only 
at the beginning of the process, but it should 



Life's Great Healing Law. 45 

be recognized as being ever present to cope with 
all adversities. To fight all battles. To heal 
all diseases. To comfort all that mourn; and 
to rule in and reign over the earth, as it rules in 
and reigns over its own physical organism. 

No limitations should be placed upon this 
little one, because the body should be recog- 
nized as only a physical shape. That which 
animates and controls it, should be seen to be 
the very same Infinite Life that it was before 
it commenced to construct the little form, and 
bring it into the world. It should be seen to' 
be the same Life embodied in this human form 
that is manifest throughout nature. 

It should be seen to be the Son of God, the 
child of omnipotence; partaking wholly of the 
nature quality and attributes of God, its Father. 
It should be seen to be the Real Man, to whom 
God gave "dominion over all the earth." 

It is this idea of its dominion, of its 
mastery, of its wisdom, of its powers, of its 
ability to do and be, whatever it desires to do 
and be ; that should be given to it. It is this 
idea of its possessing only unlimited powers 
on every line, and in every conceivable way that 
will develop and bring forth only the unlimited 
and perfect nature within it, that should be 
poured into it, from the very beginning of its 



46 Life's Great Healing Lazv. 

existence ; if it would stand forth in the world, 
in character, quality and nature, the man that 
God intended it should be. 

the; process. 

This transformation is brought about, by the 
same law, and accomplished in exactly the same 
way, that all things are brought about with 
mankind on our planet. 

The very same law that fills the human or- 
ganism with all the imperfections that "flesh is 
heir to," will fill this same organism with all the 
perfections, that man, the Infinite son of God, 
is heir to. This is done wholly, by the law of 
suggestion, which is a law of God. It is the 
law that God has established for the purpose 
of educating man ; for the purpose of quicken- 
ing, awakening, and developing the individual 
consciousness in him. 

The individual consciousness is brought 
forth, by this law of suggestion. First, the 
physical consciousness, or the knowledge of 
being material. Then the intellectual and 
moral, which is his becoming conscious that he 
is a living, thinking being — knowing right 
from wrong ; and next, the psychic and spiritual, 
which is the consciousness of his immortality, 
and his conjunction with God his Father. 



Life's Great Healing Law. 47 

These different degrees, or states of con- 
sciousness, must be quickened and opened in the 
individual, the same as the different stages and 
degrees of life, are quickened and opened in 
nature. 

Man, being a reproduction of the whole, then 
that which has been produced in the whole, 
must of necessity be re-produced in him. As 
he is a conscious being, constantly climbing^ 
higher and higher in consciousness, this climb- 
ing process is but his becoming conscious of the 
life doing within himself all that it has pre- 
viously done in nature. 

BIRTH OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 

But what is this individual consciousness? 
From whence does it come? 

We all know when the child is born into the 
world, that there is no individual consciousness 
born with it: — for there is absolutely nothing 
there, but life and matter. Of course there are 
the tendencies to limitation, and the tendencies 
to Infinite possibilities ; but the infant is wholly 
unconscious of it all. 

The consciousness, is the result of the life 
acting within and upon the body, after it brings 
it into the world. It is the result, of the way 
the life uses the little brain, or of what it 
thinks. 



48 Life's Great Healing Law. 

Individual consciousness, is the result of 
thinking. 

We must think, in order to know; and what 
we know, we become conscious of. 

It is thus, that consciousness is evolved or 
created — 'tis in this way only, that it is devel- 
oped. 

The quality and character of the conscious- 
ness, is wholly determined by the quality and 
character of the thinking which preceded it. 
The physical senses — seeing, hearing, feeling, 
tasting and smelling — are the avenue or chan- 
nels, which connect this embodied life, this in- 
dividual entity, with the things external to 
itself, and to its own organism. 

It is through the use of these senses that it 
begins to recognize, reflect, remember, reason, 
understand, know and finally become conscious 
of the things through which, in this way, it has 
come in contact. It is by and through the use 
of these senses, faculties and powers, which 
belong to the life alone,, that this consciousness 
is born, or that the life within, becomes con- 
scious of being an individual entity. 

As these faculties and powers, are first called 
forth by matter, and are used within and upon 
matter, it is but natural that the life should 
first acquire a consciousness of being material 



Life's Great Healing Law. 49 

or physical; for all suggestions are taken into 
life, by and through these same avenues with 
which it handles, and comes in contact with ma- 
terial substance. 

GROWTH IN CONSCIOUSNESS. 

It is because Life has acquired this physical 
consciousness through thinking and planning 
for that alone which pertains to its physical or 
animal nature, that it becomes, what we call a 
physical or animal man. 

You must remember that this physical or ani- 
mal consciousness, is evolved or created, by 
man's giving his whole attention to his animal 
instincts ; and as they are always fed in the body 
and with the body, he becomes conscious only 
of his body, hence he thinks that the body is 
himself. 

It is because the man desires only matter, and 
the gratification of the animal instincts which 
are felt and enjoyed only in and through mat- 
ter, that this consciousness is called physical or 
material ; for it is composed wholly of material 
thoughts. 

This is natural in a certain stage of the pro- 
cess of development, but it is only that which 
all must pass through; for man cannot tarry 
long in this condition, without injury to the 



50 Life's Great Healing Law. 

intellectual and moral faculties, which must also 
be awakened and developed. 

On the higher plane of his being, the phys- 
ical and animal become his servants, instead of 
he their slave. His rational and moral nature 
assumes control ; and his consciousness is grad- 
ually changed from a sensuous animal, to an in- 
tellectual and moral man. He becomes con- 
scious of reasoning and thinking on any line. 
To all animal instincts he says, "Thus far shalt 
thou go, and no farther." He not only desires 
to do certain things, but through his reasoning 
powers he has cultivated a will, that is strong 
enough to enable him to do what he desires. 

Every mental faculty is alert and active ; and 
man becomes conscious that he is £n intellectual 
being. And yet, this is not the highest con- 
sciousness, but only a step on the way. 

FALSE PREMISE. 

The most intellectual men we have had on 
our planet, have been unconscious of being any- 
thing more than mere physical forms. They 
have admitted that the machinery in their body 
runs, that some force or power kept it in oper- 
ation; but many of them have believed that 
"death ends all ;"and because they have been un- 
able to gain any knowledge beyond their physi- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 51 

cal senses, they have believed there was no 
knowledge beyond. Never having reasoned 
from life out, but always from matter in, they 
have failed in getting the true solution to the 
problem. 

FROM TH£ NATURAL TO THE) SPIRITUAL. 

All reasoning that starts with matter alone, 
must be as limited as matter is. In the same 
way, all reasoning that starts with life, must 
be as unlimited as life is. The end, of neces- 
sity, is involved in the beginning. 

The whole problem of human and Divine 
life, is involved in consciousness, and must be 
evolved from this same consciousness. 

As we have the vegetative, animal and human 
life in nature, each following the other, or un- 
folding out of the other, into higher and higher 
manifestations, so we have the physical, intel- 
lectual and spiritual consciousness, which un- 
fold or open up, into higher and higher degrees 
of realization. 

As the life force within nature, is the creating 
power that forms or causes all of the different 
organisms to exist, so thought, within man, is 
the creative power, that forms or causes all of 
these different states of consciousness to exist. 

When man begins to see himself, as life, and 



52 Life's Great Healing Law. 

not as matter, as a mental instead of a physical 
being, he is then only beginning to understand 
his true nature. But seeing or comprehending 
this truth does not do away with the physical, 
but it does adjust it; placing it where it belongs. 
Also, when man sees himself as being wholly 
spiritual, composed of life itself, it does not do 
aivay with the rational being that he thought he 
was, but places it where it belongs. 

THE OFFICE OF REASON. 

Man, is the king on the throne, and Reason is 
his chief high counsellor. It serves him — he 
never serves it. Its business is to be out in the 
world ; to gather all the knowledge and wisdom 
of the world and bring it to him ; and he must 
listen to it. It determines and decides all things 
for him. Through the way it weighs and 
measures all the information that it gives him, 
or in others words, through the way he uses all 
that it brings him, is he enabled to retain his 
throne. As reason is under him, serving him, 
so must the physical body, sensation, all the 
animal instincts and vegetative forces, be under 
it, and serve it. 

When man reaches a point in life, where he is 
taught to believe, because of the suggestions 
given him, — 'that he is above reason,' 'that he 



Life's Great Healing Law. 53 

has become so spiritual he has outgrown 
reason/ and he should pay no attention to it, 
he becomes insane. He 'has lost his reason/ 
The chief high counsellor has left him. He 
has no way of controlling his subjects. No 
way of knowing what is transpiring around 
him, either within his own kingdom, or outside 
of it. 

Reason is the great light-house on the shore 
of life. 

Many people are in the asylum today, because 
of having been taught and made to believe that 
their reason was beneath them. 

THK CAPTAIN OF TH£ SHIP OF Utffi. 

Reason is the captain on the ship, but it is 
not the owner. The owner is "the master/' 
and in most of us, he is "asleep in the hinder 
part of the ship," and has never been awakened. 

Reason, the strong courageous captain, must 
be, not only nourished and protected, but 
obeyed and honored in every respect. 

All that is done in every part of the ship dur- 
ing the entire voyage, should be but the carry- 
ing out of the captain's orders. The ship is put 
to rights and kept in order, only by his com- 
mand; repaired and strengthened according to 
his own directions ; and the willing and obedi- 



54 Life's Great Healing Law. 

ent service of the crew, depends almost wholly 
upon the way he manages them. 

Every living being is on the great sea of life; 
and our human ships exist, only because of the 
fact that the Infinite Master dwells within. We 
become water-logged or stranded, drift with 
the tide, or lashed nearly to pieces by the 
waves; lamed, halt or blind, just in proportion, 
as we have not awakened this Infinite Master. 

Suppose we strike an unseen rock, that in- 
jures and disables the ship, and, unconscious of 
the power of the Master on board to repair the 
injury, we hoist the signal of distress, and call 
in a doctor to repair the damages. This is 
slow, laborious, and always expensive. Many 
times the ship sinks, before the doctor arrives ; 
and often after his appearance, on the scene, 
because of his lack of knowledge, the engine 
ceases to act, and the ship goes down. 

CALIv THE OWNER. 

The true way is to awaken or call the Master. 
He who not only built the ship in the beginning, 
but invented it, as well. He who made all the 
materials, out of which it was constructed ; and 
more than this, he formed the substance out oi 
which all the materials were made. 

He not only knows how to turn water into 



Life's Great Healing Law. 55 

wine, but how to turn water into blood : — pure, 
perfect, healthy blood. Knows, not only how to 
multiply loaves and fishes : — but to multiply the 
flesh, functions, faculties, vitality and powers, 
strengthening and renewing every part and par- 
ticle of this great machine. 

When this Master is awakened, we then have 
on deck with us, our own mechanic, lawyer, 
priest and physician. To awaken this Master, 
this Owner, and keep him on deck with us all 
the time, is the object and aim of all true heal- 
ing. The only purpose of this book, is to re- 
veal the Law, by and through which this may 
be accomplished. 

The reason why our ship has not gone to the 
bottom, been lashed to pieces by the waves and 
breakers, or stranded on the rocks and shoals, 
is because it carries this Infinite Master ; for : — 

"Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea, 
Or demons or men, or whatever it be, 

No waters can swallow the ship where lies, 
The Master of Heaven, and earth, and skies." 



CHAPTER IV. 
Magnify the Lord. 

REAL HEALING. 

Real healing is to "magnify the Lord." To 
magnify anything or any one, we must in 
speaking or thinking of it or them, always ex- 
aggerate, enlarge upon, that of which we may 
have only caught a glimpse, until we have in 
our own mind and consciousness, so increased 
the character and nature of that which we are 
magnifying, that it appears to our mental vision 
to be, and we really believe it is exactly as we 
have magnified it. 

This is all done by the law of suggestion, 
which is the GREAT law OF LIFE. 

All healing is done by the law of suggestion, 
— whether that suggestion is material, oral or 
mental. The life forces within the patient are 
"amenable to control, by suggestion," and they 
are wholly and completely under its sway. If 
the suggestion of disease is held to, more tena- 
ciously than that of health, the disease will 
make its appearance in the body; and the pa- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 57 

tient will die, if the suggestion of death, is 
stronger than that of life. 

The doctor suggests to his patient his ability 
to heal him, by taking his case. He follows up 
this suggestion with medicines, all the time, 
adding others by words of encouragement and 
cheer; such as — "Oh! you'll soon be all right; 
you'll be better to-morrow; the fever or pain 
will soon be gone; get a good sleep now and 
you will wake up feeling much better." In ad- 
dition to his medicines and words of hope, are 
his mental suggestions, which are his faith in 
the patient's recovery; in his own ability to heaJ 
the disease or keep the patient sick with the 
drugs, in which he has so much confidence. 

All of these different forms of suggestions, 
would amount to nothing were it not for the 
life in the body. It is the life that takes up 
every suggestion and acts upon it, exactly in 
proportion to the weight that the suggestion 
carries with it; and that is determined wholly 
by the power that any prior suggestion may 
have over that. 

You should always keep in mind the impor- 
tant fact, that this life in the patient's body, is 
the Lord of that particular individual ; and that 
it is this Lord who reigns supremely through- 
out every particle of the entire organism. 



58 Life's Great Healing Law, 

It is this life or Lord, that made the body in 
the first place; and it is this same life or Lord 
that digests, assimilates and appropriates all 
foods, for its own use. There is but one life; 
and yet there are lives many. "There is but 
one Lord, and yet there are Lords many." 

No doctor or healer, of whatever "pathy," or 
"faith," will treat a corpse. When the life is 
gone, or this individual Lord has left His ma- 
terial habitation, all work ceases; and mortal 
man stops his efforts. 

The desire and effort of every physician on 
every line — from the little pill doctor, to the 
Great Physician — is to quicken or awaken; to 
exhilerate or in some way control this life, or 
Infinite Lord within. Each one undertakes it, 
according to his understanding of what it is, 
and his belief in his own ability to accomplish 
what he desires to do. 

THE LAW OF SUGGESTION. 

This law of suggestion, is the basis of all 
education ; for it controls the entire mental and 
physical man. Material, oral and mental sug- 
gestions, are poured into the individual from 
infancy to old age. His whole life is controlled 
by suggestion; and the quality, character and 
success of his life, is determined wholly by the 



Life's Great Healing Law. 59 

suggestions he has received, and the way he has 
acted upon them. 

All suggestions are made to the life within M 
either consciously or unconsciously. This is 
proven by the fact that no one ever makes sug- 
gestions to a lifeless form. No one ever sug- 
gests to it, what it might, can or should do; 
thus proving that it is the life alone, that re- 
ceives and acts upon the suggestion given. It 
is the life alone, that takes up every suggestion, 
and works it out into — what we may call — the 
individual consciousness, and the physical or- 
ganism. 

All healing, on every line, practiced to-day, 
is but an effort on the part of the healer, to 
"magnify the Lord." He does this in his own 
way, either blindly and ignorantly, or intelli- 
gently and consciously; which depends wholly 
on his understanding of who and what the Lord 
is, or in other words, his understanding of the 
activity and nature of the Infinite life. 

Real healing then, is the result of a clear, 
true understanding of the nature and tenden- 
cies of the life or Lord within; and in having 
all suggestions made in exact conformity with 
its real and true nature. Every suggestion 
given, is accepted by it, whether true or false ; 
and as it is Infinite in its power of operating, 



60 Life's Great Healing Law. 

it quietly goes forward, carrying out the sug- 
gestions it receives, to the best of its ability; 
whether it be to produce a cold or cure one, 
to create a fever, or control one. 

But the true suggestion, given with a clear 
understanding of the truth involved, carries 
with it, infinitely nwre force and power; be- 
cause it awakens in the life the consciousness of 
what it really is. This causes it to manifest 
in the flesh, the truth of its being; which is 
perfect health, and perfect happiness. 

the: power of imagination. 

The diseased, unhappy poverty-stricken con- 
dition of mankind to-day, is the result of the 
ignorant use, or abuse, of man's great magnify- 
ing faculty ; which is imagination. Ninety per 
cent of all the diseases, unhappiness and pov- 
erty in the world, is the direct result of distort- 
ed imagination. 

To imagine one's conditions as worse than 
they are, is a sure way to bring about those 
worse conditions ; because all such thoughts are 
auto-suggestions, which too often carry with 
them, the controlling power. 

To magnify our aches and pains, — the evil 
things that have been said about us, — our ina- 
bility to do what we would like to do — our lack 



Life's Great Healing Law. 61 

of money — or, the fear that what we now have, 
will not last us long, or will give out before the 
arrival of that dreaded 'rainy day/ — is to give 
directions to the Infinite life within; and sug- 
gests to it, that which it faithfully carries out 
and externalizes, in the individual conscious- 
ness. 

FALSE TEACHING. 

We have given no heed to the command to 
"Magnify the Lord," because we have spent all 
of our time in magnifying 'the Devil/ The 
Devil having been believed to be, the being who 
opposes everything that, the Lord undertakes 
to do ; and we having been taught from infancy, 
that because of our forefathers having entered 
into conversation with him, he led them into 
sin, from which they have never escaped. We 
have also been taught, because we are children 
of these same ancient relics of ignorance and 
selfishness, that we were born in this same sin 
— that we are under his control, and all unhap- 
piness, poverty, diseases and death, are the di- 
rect result of our association with him. 

All of these old ideas or suggestions, must 
be eradicated from the mind, before we can ex- 
pect or hope to be healed, or to understand 
God's laws. There is no way by which we can 



62 Life's Great Healing Law. 

loosen our hold on the so-called Devil or his 
hold upon us, so quickly as by taking a firm 
hold upon God. "We cannot serve two mas- 
ters." 

CONSCIOUS CONJUNCTION WITH GOD. 

We must learn to recognize the omnipotent 
power of God in all things, working for Good. 
We must also recognize the fact that no living 
being, creature or thing, demon or saint, can 
interfere with God's work, within and for us, 
if we but keep ourselves in conscious conjunc- 
tion with Him. Conscious conjunction with 
Him, means conscious connection with the uni- 
versal Life ; drawing from it constantly, health, 
strength and vigor, happiness, peace and love, 
courage, success and plenty. 

There is nothing that can shut us off, or 
come between us and this Infinite reservoir, 
unless we let it. Nothing can interfere with 
us in any way, but we ourselves. No power 
can hold the disease in our body, the beliefs in 
our mind, or the ignorance pertaining to all 
things, but we ourselves. 

Every living being who is conscious of his 
thinking power ; conscious of his ability to con- 
trol his own mind, can determine what he will 
think, and w^hat he will not think — what he 



Life's Great Healing Law. 63 

will become conscious of, and what he will not 
become conscious of. Through the same way 
that he determines what he will do and what 
he will not do, so does he determine what he 
will feel and what he will not feel. 

It is through the reasoning power that man 
controls his locomotion, and so by the same 
method does he control his sensation. The 
suggestion is made as to where he will go, 
and what he will do — reason deciding what is 
best and most desirable under the circum- 
stances, — and the life within moves the body 
away to accomplish the desired results. In 
like manner with regard to sensation. The sug- 
gestion of pain or pleasure is given ; and reason 
takes it up deciding what is best, what is right 
and most desirable ; and the life within the body 
responds as readily, automatically and per- 
fectly, to carry out the desired results, as it 
does in the other instance. 

TH£ ignorant man. 

The reason why we have not heretofore rec- 
ognized the importance of this mightly truth, 
is because we have never given the subject 
proper attention. It is only the densely ignor- 
ant man or woman who condemns without in- 
vestigation, any subject that they do not under- 



64 Life's Great Healing Law. 

stand. The wise and honest man will always 
admit that he does not know, thus placing him- 
self in an attitude to learn the truth, by recog- 
nizing the fact that because he does not know 
or understand the truth, is no reason why it 
should not exist. That because he is not fa- 
miliar with all the laws of nature, does not 
signify that nature has no laws. 

Paul says, "That which is not of faith is sin/' 
All ignorance is sin. Being born in sin, is be- 
ing born into ignorance. Remaining in sin, 
is to remain in ignorance. Getting out of or 
free from sin, is only done through knowledge, 
and this knowledge or wisdom, comes only 
through proper thinking. Knowledge of God, 
and the things of God, gives the required faith 
that not only lifts man above sin, but stops his 
sinning; for it lifts him out of ignorance, and 
puts an end to his folly. 

Just so long as we believe in a 'personal 
Devil/ or an 'evil power,' that can interfere 
with God's work with us, anti our work with 
God, we are a house divided against itself ; and 
Jesus emphasized the fact, that a house thus di- 
vided cannot stand. 

SUFFICIENT FAITH. 

Man always has enough faith to accomplish 



Life's Great Healing Law. 65 

his purpose; but in order for him to make a 
success in everything, both for himself and 
others, he must centre this faith on that which 
will do him the most good. To centre all of his 
faith in God, is to be so closely united to Him, 
that God and one become a majority: for 
Whatsoever ye shall ask, believing it shall be 
done unto you, of my Father, which is in 
Heaven. 

But to centre his faith in the power of evil, 
in the Devil ; the Devil and one become a ma- 
jority; for 'As your faith, so be it unto you." 
This axiom, given us by the Divine Master, 
"As your faith, so be it unto you," is a universal 
law: and hence, applicable in all circumstan- 
ces and conditions of life. 



CHAPTER V. 
Practical Illustrations. 

THE GROWTH OF A BOIL. 

When you see a little speck of inflammation 
showing forth upon the body, and you begin 
to suggest to yourself and others, — "It's a boil. 
I'm sure that it's a boil ; because I have seen and 
had them; and I guess / know perfectly well 
what boils are." You watch the, at first, little 
speck enlarge and grow, until it is "unto thee, 
according to thy faith." 

Your faith is wholly in the boil; in the pain 
and suffering which it produces ; and this faith, 
this fear, brings you into a full and complete 
realization of it. 

On the other hand, if you had faith in God — 
if you as certainly knew and thought that your 
body is a temple of God, and the Spirit of God 
dzvells within His holy temple — you would sug- 
gest to this perfect life within — even though the 
boil might be far on the way — that IT had the 



Life's Great Healing Law. 67 

power and ability to stop all inflammation, and 
to heal the boil immediately. 

You would set your reasoning faculties 
to work, to suggest or remind the life within, 
that it had constructed channels within that 
body, gates and doors, by which all the refuse 
should be carried off, without breaking through 
the walls or eating holes in the flesh. 

This suggestion would at once be taken up 
by the life; and it would much more willingly 
and easily stop the pain, and reduce all inflam- 
mation, than it would continue to 'bring the 
boil to a head ;' because, that is its normal way 
of operation. The intense desire of all the 
forces, functions and powers of its nature, are 
on the line of construction, and not of de- 
struction. The Infinite power of the universe 
is bearing down upon them, and compelling 
them to heal. 

God being the Infinite all perfect one, all the 
forces and laws of His being must not only be 
perfect, but must bring forth perfection. It is 
the innate tendency of all the life forces to pro- 
duce perfection. Hence, when you talk boil, 
think, suggest and have faith in boils, the Infin- 
ite power sees to it, that you get a perfect boil. 



68 Life's Great Healing Law. 

PERFECT DISEASES. 

The life's nature is to carry out every sug- 
gestion given. It's nature is to perfect, every- 
thing that it creates. As it creates or exter- 
nalizes in your consciousness all suggestions 
given to it, you have as a result, not only per- 
fect boils, but perfect felons, perfect gout, rheu- 
matism, paralysis, consumption, dyspepsia, 
smallpox; and in fact you are disabled, "laid 
up," as the result of your own suggestion, and 
the suggestions of others, by this same Infinite 
life. 

Just as long as you continue to believe that 
there are diseases which your flesh is heir to, 
"as your faith, so be it unto you." 

We all receive what we inherit. Every case 
is tried before the Supreme Court. The Infinite 
Judge is always at his post of duty, and every 
one receives according to the claims which he 
makes before this Judge, who is the Life in 
each. 

If he insists upon having what his fore- 
fathers left him; that which has been handed 
down to him from generation to generation; 
and which constitutes all the infirmities of the 
flesh ; the court decides in his favor, thus "visit- 
ing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 
unto the third and fourth generation." 



Life's Great Healing Law. 69 

On the other hand, if he is making the claim 
for his Divine inheritance — for all the condi- 
tions that belong to man as the Son of God — for 
the recognition and realization of his own 
Deific powers to create for himself health and 
happiness; the decision of the same court will 
be in his favor; and he will receive the full 
amount of his claim; for the Infinite Judge 
"shows mercy/' unto all those who "love Him 
and keep His commandments." 

As long as you have faith in, or are afraid of, 
tuberculosis, microbes, bacteria, bacilli and all 
kinds of disease germs — faith in these to de J 
stroy and eat up your flesh — you have not faith 
in God. And, to make a long story short, and 
bring it right down to where you can see it : — 
you are either absolutely ignorant of the fact, 
that "your body is the temple of God," or else 
you believe that all of these parasites are 
greater gods, and exert more power, than the 
Infinite Almighty Himself. 



CHAPTER VI. 
Laws and Their Application . 



THE LAW OF PERFECTION. 

In the preceding pages, we have already enu- 
merated several important facts of life. One 
of the prinpical ones, of which is, that it is the 
nature of the creative power to perfect every 
organism that it creates. That just exactly as 
the plant is formed and continually acted upon, 
by this Infinite life within it, until it is not only 
a perfect organism, but brings forth perfect 
blossoms and fruit; and as the animal is not 
only formed but is continually acted upon by 
the perfect life within, until it becomes a strong 
beautiful, intelligent animal; so is the organ- 
ism of man formed, and is continually acted 
upon by the Infinite life within, until, not only 
the blossom and fruitage of manhood is brought 
forth, but the strength, beauty and sublimity of 
character is evolved; until man stands forth 
in his maturity, not only conscious of this In- 
finite power working within him, but conscious 
that he is working with it, and that he is it. 



Life's Great Healing Law, 71 

He becomes conscious that he is directing and 
using it for the accomplishment of his highest 
ideals. Conscious that "all power in Heaven 
and Earth," has been really and truly given 
unto him ; and that the command of God, "Let 
him have dominion," has become an establish- 
ed fact, and is no longer a meaningless and hol- 
low statement. 

ALL POWERS BELONG TO LIFE. 

Another important fact is,- that all the forces, 
functions, faculties and powers belong to the 
life itself, and not to the plant, animal or human 
organisms. This life has proven its supreme 
power over all matter, not only by making mat- 
ter, but by forming all material conditions. 

The fact that the life does the growing, that 
the organisms do not grow but that the life 
grows them, must always be kept before the 
mind. Also the facts, that the restoring and 
repairing process is accomplished by the life 
alone. That it is all wise; knowing exactly 
how and where to do the work. Also, it is in- 
stantaneous in its operations; for the moment 
the injury is done, the healing forces are set 
at work to heal the wound. 

The reproducing power belongs to life; for 
no organism can be brought forth on the earth, 



J2 Life's Great Healing Law. 

without the consent of the Infinite Master ; and 
not only His consent, but under His own direct 
instructions and supervision. 

No organism moves itself, but the life within 
moves it ; and not only that, but the life knew 
exactly how to construct the many varieties 
of machines, from the tiny insect to the most 
perfect human form, in order to move them in 
the way it wanted to go ; and that it might do 
with them what it had planned. 

It is the life alone that feels ; that uses its 
physical senses, as a means of knowing what 
is going on throughout its own organism, and 
external to it ; and it uses its instinct for its own 
self-protection and self-preservation. 

the; child of life:. 

To life alone, belongs all of these powers, 
faculties, forces and senses. As the individual 
life, that which is embodied in the individual 
organism, is but the child or offspring of the 
universal life; it must of necessity partake 
wholly of the nature, characteristics, attributes 
and substance of the Infinite Father, of which 
it is the offspring. 

All children, all offspring, partake wholly of 
the nature, characteristics attributes and sub- 
stance of the parent, of which they are the 
child. 



Life's Great Healing Law. 73 

It is a universal law of life, that everything 
reproduces after its kind. 

God, the Divine Father, the Universal Infin- 
ite Power, "created Man, in His own Image," 
or after His kind, hence all finite beings, crea- 
tures and things, must reproduce after their 
kind; for they are all reproductions of God's 
Law. 

As we have all our lives studied the finite be- 
ings, creations and things, in order to gain the 
knowledge that we have, thereby becoming con- 
scious of the finite only: so must we in like 
manner devote as much time to studying the In- 
finite, the loving and eternal, if we would gain 
knowledge of it, and become conscious of the 
Infinite loving and eternal beings, which we are, 
as children of this Infinite loving Father. 

Beloved, 'Now are we the sons of God; but 
it doth not yet appear what we shall be," be- 
cause we have not yet become conscious of be- 
ing this Infinite life; and "what we shall be," 
will never be revealed until this life has ap- 
peared to us, and then shall we be like it ; for we 
shall have seen it as it is, and will then become 
conscious that we are it. 

This great change is to take place, only in 
and through consciousness. Through right 
thinking, this consciousness is to be changed 



74 Life's Great Healing Law. 

from the mortal to the 'immortal. It is to be 
changed from a diseased creature, to a healthy 
being; from an unhappy creature, to a happy 
being; from a failure in life to a success. 

By letting "the same mind be in you, that was 
in Christ Jesus our Lord," you change the indi- 
vidual from the weak, diseased, ignorant, sel- 
fish creature, that he has made himself, — by his 
own and others' suggestions — to the conscious- 
ness of being the perfect, healthy, unselfish and 
mighty being — the Divine image, as God cre- 
ated him. 

It is because man has imbedded or centered 
his consciousness in matter — in the physical 
body, that he has become weak and limited; 
hence unconscious of his Divine prerogatives. 
We always become conscious, of that in which 
our thought is centered. We always become 
conscious of being that which we really and 
truly think we are, for "As a man thinketh in 
his heart, so is he." If he thinks he is com- 
posed only of flesh and blood and bones, this 
becomes as real to him as though he truly were. 

CHANGING CONSCIOUSNESS. 

In order to transfer this consciousness from 
the physical organism to the life within, man 
must think that he is life. He must imbed or 



Life's Great Healing Law. 75 

centre his consciousness in life. He must think 
of himself as doing and being, all that life is 
and can do. 

As he became conscious of his limitations 
while living in matter only, because matter is 
limited, so must he become conscious of his 
unlimitations while living or centered in life, 
because life is unlimited. 

In other words, he must deliberately and 
persistently, change his abode of habitation, 
from matter to life, from the physical to the 
spiritual, from Mammon to God. 

Instead of thinking of seeing with his eye?, 
and hearing with his ears and feeling with his 
nerves, all of which are material and limited; 
he must think of seeing, hearing and feeling 
through them. He must think of himself 
as centered in Life, as being the very 
centre of all life; thus seeing, hearing, 
feeling, tasting and smelling with the 
Universal. He must see that the Universal 
Powers are his powers. That because he is cen- 
tered in It, It is centered in him ; and through 
the consciousness of his being centered in It, 
the Universal Power works in and through him. 

He sees all things as it sees them. He 
hears all things, as it hears them and is to be- 
come conscious of all things as they are in It. 



y6 Life's Great Healing Law. 

Thus centered in It, he looks out through his 
physical eyes. He must remember that he is 
seeing with the universal sight, but seeing 
through his eyes, as one looks out through his 
window into the outside world. 

In remembering this fact, he knows that the 
universal sight cannot be weakened or injured, 
in any way. It is Infinite and Omnipotent in 
its mode of operation; for it is the all-seeing 
eye of God. 

Inseparable from this universal sight, is the 
perfect constructing and reconstructing power 
of the Almighty. This is there not only to heal 
and restore, but it is there to invent, construct 
and perfect the physical organism, for its own 
use. 

RESTORING THE SIGHT. 

In studying life outward from God, from the 
very centre of life, to the circumference of mat- 
ter, one not only gains a higher and holier con- 
ception of Deity, but gains a consciousness of 
the mighty fact that he can of himself do noth- 
ing, but that it is the Father dwelling within 
him, who doeth the work. 

That which a man thinks in his heart, he of 
necessity knows, and what he knows, he be- 
comes conscious of. Thus we see why it is, 



Life's Great Healing Law. yy 

and how it is, that "as a man thinketh in his 
heart, so is he." 

It makes not the slightest difference to the 
Infinite law of God — to the universal construct- 
ing and reconstructing powers of the Almighty 
— whether you have cataract growing over the 
eyes, are cross-eyed or have astigmatism; are 
near-sighted or far-sighted, weak or otherwise. 
It not only has the ability and the will to re- 
move and restore all, but it always carries with 
it, the necessary materials and instruments, 
through which the work is to be accomplished. 

All that is required, for you to become con- 
scious of perfect sight, is your belief in its 
ability, and your faith in its determined effort 
to do the work. "Have faith in God, and noth- 
ing shall be impossible unto you," for, "as your 
faith, so be it unto you." 

It is because you believe that the cataract can 
shut out the light of God, that gives it power 
to do so. The cataract and one are a majority, 
in their ability to make you blind, the same as 
God and one are a majority, in their ability to 
make you see. 

For man to transfer his consciousness from 
matter to life, is for him to become as abso- 
lutely conscious of the fact, that he lives, moves 



yS Life's Great Healing Law. 

and has his being in life, as he is now conscious, 
that he lives, moves and has his being in matter. 

the healing power is in the individual. 

That which is true of the eyes, is also true 
of the ears. That which is true of the Infinite 
power seeing, is also true of the Infinite power 
hearing. 

We must have it stamped indelibly on the 
mind, so that it can never be eradicated or 
changed ; that the healing and restoring power 
of God Himself, is inseparably connected with 
every faculty, function, sense and portion, of 
the entire human organism. 

It makes no difference whether it is for the 
perfection of the ears, so that the Infinite life 
can hear all sounds through them, or the per- 
fection of any of the other organs of sense. 
Whether it is for the perfection of the organs 
within the body, so that the Omnipotent func- 
tions of life can perform their work perfectly — 
or the muscular and nervous systems — the cir- 
culation of the blood — or the strengthening of 
the bones : — in fact, throughout every atom 
of the entire human form, it makes no differ- 
ence in what part of it, or in what connection 
we find it, this mighty fact of God remains the 
same: — that is, that the healing and restoring 
powers of the Divine life within yourself, are 



Life's Great Healing Law. 79 

inseparably connected with every function of 
the body ; every particle and portion of it ; every 
faculty of the mind ; and every sense and activ- 
ity of the whole being of man. 

We must also keep in mind, that the only re- 
quired condition for perfect restoration, per- 
fect health and understanding on every line, 
is, through man consciously connecting himself 
with the Infinite Power — God — in thought. He 
must acknowledge Him in all his ways; by 
holding to the fact that it is "the Father dwell- 
ing within" him, that is doing the work — and 
"I can of myself, do nothing." 



CHAPTER VII. 
Laws of Our Being. 

ONE GRAND WHOLE. 

Man must always think of life, as being one 
universal whole ; connecting and permeating all 
things. He must think of himself as being 
that part of the universal whole, which is em- 
bodied in his own human form. 

"We are all one body, with many members/' 
Every human being is but a member of this 
Great Body. Then this universal life that we 
are to become conscious of, is but the Soul or 
Lord of this Great Body, of which we all are 
members. Thus we see how necessary it is, 
for us to not only think, but to know that all 
the faculties, functions, forces and powers of 
the universal life, belong to and are operative 
in us, and that we are in the process of becom- 
ing conscious of this Infinite operation; for in 
this way we not only see, but we understand 
why and how, "I and the Father are one/' and 
"All that is mine is thine." 



Life's Great Healing Law. 81 

Man thus sees that, whereas once he, as a 
physical conscious entity — was a prodigal in 
the far country of matter and material limita- 
tions — now he has returned home to his Fath- 
er's house. In this way, through constantly 
and rationally, thinking and dwelling on this 
line, he transfers this consciousness from mat- 
ter to life ; thus becoming conscious that he is 
the "Son of God :" while before, he knew only 
of his physical existence, as the son of man, 
who was in the far country feeding swine — that 
is, feeding only the animal instincts and tenden- 
cies of his own selfish nature. 

"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," is 
a spiritual truth, the same as it has been a phys- 
ical fact; because it is founded on law. 

If a man's consciousness is wholly composed 
of what he thinks, if it is a law, that he must 
think, in order to know, and what he knows, 
he becomes conscious of; then the first knowl- 
edge to be attained is, what to think and how 
to think. 

THINKING AND FEEUNG. 

But before we take up this subject, it is nec- 
essary to understand, and always remember 
that, thinking and feeling, go together. Sen- 
sation and attention go together. These are 



82 Life's Great Healing Law. 

the two feet, on which the individual travels 
around in consciousness. 

If we think unkind and angry thoughts to- 
ward others, we feel unkind and angry toward 
them. If we think unhappy and miserable 
thoughts in regard to ourselves, we will feel 
unhappy and miserable. 

The character and quality of every thought 
that we think with the individual brain, is car- 
ried down through the nervous system, into 
every part of the body. Thus we feel misera- 
ble and unhappy, or angry and disagreeable 
all over. If we imagine we have been injured 
or imposed upon, or that some one has hurt our 
feelings, we feel depressed accordingly. 

On the other hand, if we think how happy we 
are, how loving, kind and good we are, we will 
feel happy, loving, kind and good. We always 
feel exactly what we think, and we have always 
been thinking what we have felt. 

If we feel a pain, we think what an awful 
pain it is, and how miserable it makes us feel. 
If we feel indigestion, we are afraid it is going 
to become chronic gastritis or dyspepsia, and 
we keep on thinking about it, and feeling 
it, in other words, magnifying it until 
we get it. This is a law and it is op- 
erative all the time, whether we are con- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 83 

scious of it, or not. We feel what we think, 
and think what we feel, whether of pleasure or 
of pain; strength or weakness; health or sick- 
ness; and so on, down the whole scale of hu- 
man existence, whether desirable or unde- 
sirable. 

Remember that the brain is like the central 
telephone office; and the nerves are the wires 
connecting it with all parts of the body, which 
carry every message to the end of the line ; and 
the character and nature of the message, is re- 
ceived by the individual consciousness, to the 
very utmost extent of its borders. 

SENSATION AND ATTENTION. 

It is a law of our being that sensation and 
attention belong together. We always get* the 
sensation from that upon which we place our 
attention. 

If we hold our attention upon a beautiful pic- 
ture, the more we become absorbed in it, the 
more we receive the sensation from it, until 
we feel as beautiful as it is. Or, if, upon the 
other hand, we place our attention upon a sad 
or hideous picture, and become absorbed in it, 
we will feel as sad and ugly as it is. We never 
hear sounds, see objects, smell odors, taste or 
feel things, unless our attention is placed upon 



84 Life's Great Healing Law. 

the object or thing, with which the senses come 
in contact. 

THE ARM OF SENSATION. 

It is because sensation belongs to the Great 
Whole, to life itself, that it is at one with all 
life, and therefore, is universal. Sensation is 
to the individual life, what the arms are to the 
body. The end of the arm reaching out from 
the body, has its five fingers ; the other end be- 
ing connected with the body, is at one with it. 
If we could look down through the arm, into 
the fingers, we would see only as far as the ends 
of the fingers ; then by looking up into the body, 
we could not only see throughout the entire 
body, but would be able to know all that was 
going on within it. 

The universal sensation, that which reaches 
out through the individual body, has its five 
physical senses ; and these physical senses being 
the fingers on the great arm of sensation, they 
are necessarily limited ; but it is through them 
and with them, that life handles and uses mate- 
rial things. 

As the arm of sensation belongs to life itself, 
it is in looking in and through this arm to life, 
instead of out through the physical senses to the 
world, that man becomes conscious of his con- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 85 

nection with life. In this way by looking back 
into life, by centering the attention on life, we 
must by the same law receive the sensations of 
life,- because we are holding our attention 
upon it. 

As we know that life itself is healthful, pow- 
erful, intelligent, joyful and courageous, we 
know that by holding our attention upon it, 
we get the sensations of health, strength, joy 
and courage from it. By this same law, in 
thinking of life, or the things of God — for life 
is God — meditating and dwelling upon His 
law day and night, we are compelled to feel in 
our physical bodies, the harmonious operation 
of this life. 

These are not theories, but they are mighty 
facts; facts which we have known all through 
our lives; but facts, the importance of which, 
we have never stopped to consider. 

We have always known that to see a creeping 
reptile, crawling, gives us a creepy, crawling 
feeling all over; and to talk about all of these 
unpleasant things always makes us shudder. 

"thk worst headache:." 

In the same manner with disease. We re- 
tire at night thinking how tired and exhausted 
we are from the day's exertion ; and conscious 



86 Life's Great Healing Law. 

of "that tired feeling," as well as thinking of it. 
We think it more than probable, that we shall 
have a sick headache in the morning, because 
we are "subject to them, ,, and as we awaken, 
we begin to think and wonder how we feel. 

This thought starts out the millions of little 
feelers, all over the body to tell us whether we 
feel better or worse. We decide that we feel 
about the same, until we meet others of the fam- 
ily or houshold and each one inquiring "How 
do you feel?" This necessitates that much 
more thinking about our trouble, hence that 
much more feeling for the pain. They tell us 
how badly we look, and pitying us with "you 
poor thing, I'm so sorry for you," which makes 
us only feel their pity, and our own poor con- 
dition; until, by the time we have heard them 
all, we are ready to admit, "I have the worst 
headache, I ever had in all my life." Yes, and 
it has been brought about in the same old way, 
and by the same law, which is the law of sug- 
gestion. 

PROOF THAT SUGGESTION IS THE CONTROLLING 
LAW OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 

The law of suggestion, is the controlling law 
of individual consciousness. In other words, it 
is the law through and by which all human con- 
sciousness is formed. 



Life's Great Healing Law. 87 

This can be proven to any one, who will take 
the trouble to read the historical record of 
where a child, in infancy, was confined alone in 
a dungeon until twenty years of age. He was 
not permitted to converse with any human be- 
ing. When he was brought out into the world, 
— because there had never been any suggestions 
given to him, because the life in that human 
form had never had suggested to it, in thought, 
word or deed, what it could do, or might be- 
come — this human creature, was unconscious of 
doing or being anything. He could neither 
speak nor think; and was as helpless and un- 
conscious, as when first placed in the dungeon. 

If this proves to us, that through education 
by suggestion the individual becomes conscious, 
not only of matter, but of being material ; not 
only of diseases, distresses and miseries, but of 
being diseased, distressed and miserable, it 
must also of necessity prove to us, that this 
same individual, can through this same law of 
suggestion, become conscious, not only of life, 
and of being life, but of possessing all that per- 
tains to life. 

Every suggestion is made through the mind ; 
and the more it is dwelt upon, and thought 



88 Life's Great Healing Law. 

about, the stronger and more powerful it be- 
comes. This brings us to the fact, that it is of 
great importance for us to know what to think 
and how to think; or what to suggest and how 
to suggest. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Controlling the Mind. 

IS IT TRU£ ? 

Let us look at this subject for a moment, in 
another way. 

Is it true that your life is in your body? 

Is it true that your individual life — that 
which is embodied in your human form — is a 
part or portion of all life? 

Is it true that not a drop of blood can flow 
within your body — not a particle of food be di- 
gested — not a muscle move — not a nerve re- 
spond — in fact, not the smallest degree of work 
be accomplished in any way, unless this life 
within does it ? 

Is it true that human life, is the culmination 
of all mineral, animal and vegetative life? 

Is it true, that this life principle in nature has 
not only formed matter, but has the power to 
construct and reconstruct it, into any form it 
desires ? 

Is it true that this Infinite life has the power 



90 Life's Great Healing Law. 

to transmute mineral substances into vegetable 
forms, and to continue to transmute these nat- 
ural substances, from vegetable forms into ani- 
mal flesh ; and through its own innate potencies, 
transmute these same elements into human 
flesh — construct a brain — connect this brain 
with all parts of the human form, so that it can 
control this form at will, performing every 
function, and controlling every faculty, force 
and power that belongs to this Infinite life 
itself? 

Is it true that at birth, there is nothing but 
this life and the material structure in which 
it lives? 

Is it true that through the use of functions, 
senses and factulties, that belong to this life 
alone, an individual consciousness is brought 
forth and begins to open up and unfold, in pro- 
portion to the nature and quality of the sug- 
gestions given it? 

Is it true that the law of suggestion, is the 
great law of human or individual conscious- 
ness; and that by and through the operation 
and use of this law, man becomes a self-con- 
scious entity? 

Is it true that he can, in proportion to his own 
desire and faith, centre his attention on that 



Life's Great Healing Law. 91 

which he desires, or does not desire, until he 
becomes conscious of it? 

Is it true, that through this process of evolv- 
ing consciousness, he has evolved for himself, 
only that which he involved, through the law 
of suggestion ? 

If so, is it not also true, that by this same 
process of evolving consciousness, he can evolve 
for himself only that which God involved in 
him, and that by this same law of suggestion? 

INDIVIDUAL DECISION. 

• 

Each and every individual must answer these 
questions, for himself, and this he will do, ac- 
cording to his own understanding of the laws 
pertaining to individual consciousness. 

These statements, if true, are true because 
they are literal facts ; for every truth, is a literal 
fact. Then all facts must be admitted as facts, 
all truths must be admitted as truth; for it is 
the admitting it as truth, the thinking about 
it, dwelling upon it, that gives man the knowl- 
edge of its being true. It is this knowledge, 
that frees us from the consciousness of limita- 
tion, diseases and all unhappy conditions. It 
is in this way only, that you can "know the 
truth, and the truth shall make you free." 

We must recognize, that the laws of life are 



92 Life's Great Healing Law. 

the laws of the Lord ; and it is on these laws, 
that man is to meditate day and night, if he 
would "be like a tree, planted by the rivers of 
water, that bringeth forth fruit in his season: 
whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatso- 
ever he doeth shall prosper." 

the power of thought. 

Man's power to think is Infinite. His mind 
is never still one moment. He is constantly 
thinking whether awake or asleep, in an object- 
ive or subjective condition. 

Thoughts pour through his mind, like the 
water through a hose, and these thoughts are 
the suggestions, which act upon the life itself, 
causing it to create in his body and in his con- 
sciousness, that which corresponds with what 
he thinks. It is the nature of these thoughts, 
to create corresponding conditions, the same as 
it is the nature of the water to moisten the soil 
or plants, on which the hose is turned. 

As it is the nature of water to wet, so is it 
the nature of all life to create. It cannot help 
itself. It must create for the individual every 
suggestion that is persistently held in the mind, 
without regard to pain or pleasure, disease or 
health ; the same as the water moistens the soil, 
regardless of fruit or weeds, thorns or flowers. 



Life's Great Healing Law. 93 

CONTROLLING WILD HORSES. 

We never know what a mighty power the 
mind is, what an Infinite force it is, until we un- 
dertake to control it. Many people spend a 
whole life time in letting the mind run wild, 
the same as a man would let his horses run wild 
in the fields, without thought or knowledge of 
their power and ability to pull the loads, and 
do his work for him. 

To get our mind under control, and compel 
it to think what we want to think, is no easier 
than for the man to tame and harness his wild 
horses, and compel them to perform the work 
that he wants done. It is on exactly the same 
principle, and is accomplished in the very same 
way. 

First, the man must be made to believe that 
the horses are his own individual property, to 
be used as he wills. 

vSecond, he must understand that he has the 
power and ability to tame and control them, 
thus compelling them to do his work. 

Third, it mtist be shown him, that the horses 
are powerful creatures. That with a sufficient 
number of them harnessed together and moved 
at his will, he can pull any load and perform 
any work required on his own or another's 
premises. 



94 Life's Great Healing Law. 

These are the three important requirements, 
which must be instilled into the man before he 
will undertake the work. 

In the first place, he must be brought to see 
the force and power, which is being wasted by 
these animals in their present untrained state. 
Then, he must also see the great advantage it 
will be to himself and others, for him to utilize 
this force and power, in his daily work and life. 

These facts must all be firmly rooted in his 
mind, before he can have sufficient faith in his 
own ability to cope with the situation. Be- 
cause, he knows that there will be many traces 
kicked over, many dash-boards splintered, and 
many times his arms will be nearly pulled from 
their sockets, before he has become master of 
the situation. 

However, the result of the entire work, will 
depend wholly on the amount of desire and 
faith, will and understanding, or persistent ef- 
fort, which he consciously applies, during the 
entire undertaking. 

TAMING AND CONTROLLING THE) MIND. 

It is in this same way, that man is to become 
conscious of possessing the many forces and 
faculties of his own nature, and the mastery 
of his own mind. 



Life's Great Healing Law. 95 

First, he must be made to believe that all of 
these forces, faculties and powers, are his own 
individual property, to be used and controlled 
by his own will. 

Second, he must be made to see that he has 
the power and ability to develop and control 
them, and to command their obedience to his 
will. 

Third, he must also be shown that these pow- 
ders are omnipotent. That with them harnessed 
together or separate — as the case may require — 
he can accomplish any work desired, in the 
scope of his own mental horizon. 

He must also be brought to see, that the 
forces and powers within his own body are not 
only being wasted, but are running wild; de- 
stroying and tearing up the flesh; thus break- 
ing down the different faculties, functions and 
senses, which are his most valuable possessions. 

"the last enemy to be overcome is death/' 

Then he must see the great advantage it will 
be to him, not only for temporary, but for per- 
manent relief. Not only to enable him to 
"grow old gracefully," remaining healthy to the 
last, but that he may utilize, these forces and 
powers, in his daily walk, conversation and 
thought, until "he returns to the days of his 



96 Life's Great Healing Law. 

youth ;" for this life within him, and which 
really constitutes his own being, never grows 
old, never decays, and never can be destroyed. 

Thus it follows as a logical sequence, that 
as man not only becomes conscious of this life 
working within and upon him, but becomes con- 
scious that he is this very life itself, he can not 
grow old, decay or in any way be destroyed. 

The law is, that man partakes wholly of the 
nature and quality of that, of which he becomes 
conscious. His body, being but the embodi- 
ment of his consciousness, it is by and through 
it that he manifests or shows forth the state or 
degree of consciousness, which he possesses. 

These facts must all be firmly rooted in his 
mind. He must believe in their possibility. 
He must have sufficient faith awakened in his 
own ability, to control with his own mental 
faculties, the functions, forces and powers of 
his own nature, before he will persevere, until 
he has established his mastery over them. 

In like manner and according to the desire 
faith, will, and understanding, that he uses, will 
he accomplish the desired result, or reach the 
goal. 



CHAPTER IX. 
How to Attain Desired Results. 

PERFECT MEMORY. 

The next step to be taken in this process, is 
the practical application of the laws involved. 

When you read this book, you must not 
think "Oh my memory is so poor* it has been 
failing for so long, I know I shall remember 
but very little of this. If I could only remem- 
ber it, I know it would do me a world of good. 
Why didn't I get hold of it before my brain 
became so weakened that I cannot remember 
anything ?" 

Steady there ! Now, this is the first kick over 
the traces, and brings the horse to a standstill, 
blocking and preventing the accomplishment 
of what you desire done. "You must not get 
discouraged/' This discouraging thought 
should call your mind to the fact that your 
memory is absolutely perfect, although you 
may be unconscious of it. Of course what you 



98 Life's Great Healing Law. 

are unconscious of possessing, you cannot con- 
sciously use. 

If you want to become conscious of having 
a perfect memory you must begin to sow the 
right kind of seed to produce it. Every 
thought is a seed sown in consciousness; and 
the law is, that each seed brings forth after its 
kind. By thinking that the life within is per- 
fect, and that the power of memory belongs 
to it alone, hence must be as perfect as the life 
from which it emanates — you are sowing the 
seed that will bring forth the perfect memory. 

You must remember that you, yourself, are 
the embodied life to which this perfect memory 
belongs. 

Seeing this truth you can truly and con- 
scientiously say, "My memory is perfect. I can 
remember all things that I desire to remember ; 
and my power to forget is also perfect, for I can 
forget those things which I do not wish to re- 
member. I can and I will forget the limited 
being that I have believed myself to be, forget 
that I ever had a poor memory, and remember 
always the perfect unlimited being that I must 
become conscious of, because of what I really 
and truly am. 



Life's Great Healing Law. 99 

the; wild imagination. 

As you read on down these pages, you may 
find that you have another kind of horse to deal 
with, a regular bucking broncho; and you are 
brought to a standstill with this exclamation: 

"Yes, I can see how all this might be a great 
help to nervous people, or to people who have 
only some little physical ailment; but with 
spinal trouble like mine, and a weak stomach, 
enlarged heart, torpid liver, gout, lumbago, ver- 
tigo, bronchitis and corns like I have, its differ- 
ent. 

This might do all right for those who have 
a happy home, and pleasant surroundings, but 
with any one who has a husband like mine to 
live with, or children that treat them as mine do 
me, or not knowing where the money is to come 
from to pay the next month's rent, or where 
we will get our next meal : — you see, my 
troubles are greater than other peoples ; and if 
things were only different, I don't doubt but 
this would do me much good." 

Right here is where your imagination plays 
havoc. 

You imagine that your special troubles are 
greater and stronger than the Almighty Him- 
self. You imagine your load is larger than the 

LofC. 



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Lord can carry, and your disease worse than the 
Infinite Power can heal. 

This is all false ! You do not mean to tell or 
think, what is untrue, but when you stop to 
think, you see that you are magnifying every- 
thing but the Lord, thereby increasing and en- 
larging everything, that you do not desire. 

You must stop sowing thorns and thistles 
if you do not want them ; for your body is the 
soil in which these seeds grow. 

TAMING THE WILD IMAGINATION. 

You must keep in your mind something like 
this: 

"I am sustained and upheld by the Infinite 
power of God, by Love itself. All the troubles, 
trials and diseases of my life, are as chaff be- 
fore the omnipotent force of this Infinite Love. 

"My husband, or my wife, is filled with the 
love of God, the same as I am filled with it. 1 
will turn my eyes from the circumference of 
things into the very centre of all Power, and I 
will ,see this Infinite Power, centered in all 
things. 

I will see that all of these trials, have been 
but a disturbed condition on the circumference, 
— in the world N of matter — to drive me into the 
Centre, into my God. When I am centered in 



Life's Great Healing Law. 101 

God, I am conscious of being surrounded with 
Infinite Love, Peace, and Joy. Hence, my sur- 
roundings must become pleasant, and my home 
happy, because of the perfect life which is 
working in me, and in each one around me ; and 
because of the Infinite love which I am radiat- 
ing. 

My children are God's children. Within 
them is the Divine spark of Infinite possibility ; 
and I will breathe on this spark, the love of God 
which fills my soul, until I fan it into an In- 
finite flame. And this flame of fire will con- 
sume all of the envy, hate, jealousy, passions 
and selfishness, which I have seen growing 
within them ; for 'My God is a consuming fire/ 

'My God will supply all my needs,' for He 
knows the rent must be paid, to keep my fam- 
ily sheltered, and that the food is needed by the 
life, to sustain and keep these bodies in a 
healthy condition. As these bodies belong to 
the Lord our God, who is the life that made, 
and is within them, I know that He will care 
for His own. 

My troubles are nothing, as compared with 
what they might be. 

Therefore, I shall cultivate a faith in His 
protecting care until I am conscious that He is 
reigning in and ruling over me. And accord- 



102 Life's Great Healing Law. 

ing to the strength, will and faith that I possess, 
will I persist in thinking the truth of that 
which I know I am." 

HOW TO THINK, SPEAK AND ACT. 

You must always remember, that the Lord, 
your God, is your own individual life — your 
own spirit. 

Then you must meet with this same line of 
reasoning, every thought that is contrary to the 
way the Lord your God would think it. Every 
word that is contrary to the way the Lord your 
God would speak it ; and every act that is not in 
direct accordance with the way the Lord your 
God would do it. 

Your work now is, to become fully as con- 
scious of the Lord your God, dwelling within 
you, and of yourself as being the "Spiritual 
man," "the Lord from Heaven," as you have 
been conscious that you were a physical being. 

You must never forget that the law is, that 
which you think, you know; and what you 
know, you of necessity must become conscious. 

"thought creates presence/' 

A great man once said "Thought creates 
presence." This means nothing more nor less 



Life's Great Healing Law. 103 

than, that which you hold your attention upon, 
you receive the sensation from, hence must be- 
come conscious of its presence. 

This line of thinking will be difficult at first, 
because we are creatures of habit. We have 
acquired the habit of finding fault with, and 
thinking that everything is wrong, and we 
don't see why things should be so ? We can't see 
why we must have so much trouble while other 
people have such an easy time ? 

We must learn that the experiences of human 
life, belong alike to every individual. Each one 
must sooner or later pass through the trials and 
sufferings of life, as well as through its joys 
and pleasures. 

"it's all right/' 

The motto then, for every day life, for every 
hour of the day and every moment in the hour, 
should be, "It's all right. ,, Everything is all 
right, for the Lord is doing all that is being 
done. 

The life, or Lord, within every form, is doing 
the very best that it can under the cimcumstan- 
ces. Your individual consciousness is the cir- 
cumstances, under which your Lord is working. 

Your individual thinking, and the sugges- 
tions that you are constantly making contrary 



104 Life's Great Healing Low. 

to its law and nature, are piling up these diffi- 
culties and diseases through which the All- 
Perm:ct One cannot reveal to you, neither 
what He is, nor what He can do. 

By your taking the firm stand that every- 
thing is right, that everything happens at the 
right time and in the right place, that nothing 
can possibly go wrong, that nothing can be 
wrong, that everything is going right, and ev- 
erything is right — by doing this persistently 
and determinedly, you acknowledge Him in 
all your ways, and He will direct your paths. 
You thus, commit your "way unto the Lord; 
trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to 
pass." 

In this way, we see that these commands of 
the Bible, are based on the immutable laws of 
nature, which are the laws of God, operating 
in man. The Bible reveals to us, that God has 
no laws which are not operative or latent in 
man. It is because man is the Image of God, 
that all the laws and forces of His nature, must 
be revealed in and through His Image. 

I care not what your circumstances and con- 
ditions are, what your life is or has been, or 
the nature and character of those around you ; 
if you will take for your motto, "It's all right," 
and apply it to every circumstance and condi- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 105 

tion of your life, from the time you open your 
eyes in the morning until you close them at 
night, you will find that it is the Infinite leaven, 
that will leaven the whole lump of your entire 
existence. 

When you burn your hand or become injured 
in any way, you should insist that "it's all 
right," with a conscious knowledge of what 
these words imply. This knowledge is, that 
you are life, and life cannot be burned, neither 
can matter feel. This life within your organ- 
ism is ready always, with its reconstructing 
and healing forces; also with its Infinite and 
unlimited power to control matter in every 
sense. 

In this way you will very soon learn how 
quickly the burn will heal; that it will be im- 
possible for you to take cold in it ; and that you 
will feel very little, if any pain from it. By 
continuing this process always, you will learn 
that you never get burned or hurt in any way ; 
for you are acknowledging Him in all your 
ways, and "He shall direct thy paths." 

Every time you speak a cross word — or be- 
come impatient or angry, saying and doing 
what you know afterwards you should not have 
done, — instead of brooding over it, and think- 
ing of the harm you have caused to yourself 



io6 Life's Great Healing Law. 

and others, you should quiet yourself by declar- 
ing, "It's all right! It's all right !" Meaning 
not that you are glad you did it, and that you 
have taught them a lesson, and will give them 
the same or much more just like it, the next 
time you get a chance — but instead of this, you 
mean it is all right, because it has revealed to 
you, your weakness It has shown you how 
prone you are to condemn, thus reminding you, 
that you are being condemned by others. 

It is all right, because it has shown you more 
clearly than ever that selfish animal nature that 
you have been cultivating for so many years; 
until it has grown to become your master, and 
you, its slave. 

It is all right, because it has shown you the 
mighty difference between this mortal and the 
immortal ; between this human animal, and the 
human Divine; between the man that dwells 
without, and the God that dwells within. 

It is all right, because it has brought you 
to see the littleness of the external, the noth- 
ingness of the life of the world — to seeing the 
greatness, the magnitude and the glory of the 
internal, the life of God. 

the: results. 
It is in this way and by this method that the 



Life's Great Healing Law. 107 

temper is wholly overcome, and that all the pas- 
sions and animal instincts are brought under 
complete subjection. Every time that you are 
brought face to face with the contrast between 
the life in matter, and the life in God, your de- 
sire to attain the latter is intensified. Your 
faith is quickened and increased. Your deter- 
mination is aroused and strengthened ; and with 
renewed vigor and zeal you "press forward to 
the mark of your high calling which is in Christ 
Jesus your Lord." This Christ Jesus, your 
Lord, is the individual consciousness of your 
own indwelling God. 

HABIT OF RIGHT THINKING. 

As we are in the habit of thinking and feeling 
with the physical senses in the body, so must we 
get into the habit of thinking and feeling with 
the spiritual senses, in life. This is done only 
by practice. By learning to control the think- 
ing power in order to produce the harmony 
upon the body, just as the child learns to con- 
trol its fingers, in order to produce harmony 
upon the piano. 

A few moments spent each day in practicing 
this method of thinking, will in due time re- 
move all undesirable conditions, either physi- 
cal or mental. If a few moments each day will 



108 Life's Great Healing Law. 

do this, then hours will do more; and just as 
the child spending much time in its practice on 
the piano, soon becomes a musician; so will 
any one spending much time in this way of cor- 
rect thinking, soon become a healer — a power 
in the world for good. 

This kind of thinking is called "treatment" 
or "prayer." It is in this way that we are to 
pray without ceasing, and in everything give 
thanks. 



CHAPTER X. 
''Seek and Ye Shall Find/ 9 



TIME AND SPACE ANNIHILATED. 

As God is everywhere present, filling all 
space, beings, creatures and things, when you 
are centered in Him, through Him you are con- 
nected with all other beings, creatures and 
things. 

As sensation is a universal function, belong- 
ing to all alike, by centering your attention 
upon the life within another, whether in the 
same room or across seas or continents, you 
have the ability to awaken the sensation with- 
in them, that corresponds exactly to that which 
you are holding your attention upon. 

This is a law of life, and not a theory. Sen- 
sation and attention belong together. When 
the sensation is awakened, the attention is al- 
ways called to it; and when the attention is 
fixed on anything, the sensation is always 
brought forth. Either the attention awakens 
the sensation or the sensation commands the at- 



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tention. Hence, when the attention is wholly 
withdrawn from anything, the sensation will 
cease, thus causing the individual to become un- 
conscious of it. 

By this law then, when the attention of the 
healer is centered in the life of the patient, and 
not in the disease, in the understanding of the 
ability of this life to heal all manner of dis- 
eases, and with the necessary faith in its deter- 
mination to do so, the sensation of health and 
happiness must be awakened in the patient. 
This in turn, calls the patient's attention to the 
fact, that the sensations of pain have ceased, 
or are ceasing; that the disease is healed, or is 
healing. 

' Now, this is the law, which, when thorough- 
ly understood and appreciated by the healer- 
does away entirely with the thought of limita- 
tion. This idea of limitation must be over- 
come; because in conscious work, man can do 
no more than he believes himself capable of 
doing. Hence, it is supremely necessary, for 
him to understand these Infinite laws ; for only 
by understanding them, is he enabled to use 
them. 

Remember always, that the sensation of pain, 
will call the individual's attention to it; and 
the sensation of pleasure will likewise call at- 



Life's Great Healing Law. nr 

tention thereto. In fact, any kind of sensa- 
tion when sufficiently awakened, will com- 
mand the attention of the one* in whom it is 
aroused. 

So, it is of little importance, where you are x 
what you are doing, or what your disease or 
trouble may be; if the healer can fix his atten- 
tion wholly on the life within you, "On the 
spirit of God," that dwells within, convinced of 
Its power to instantly heal you, the sensation of 
health and happiness must bk called forth. As 
the attention is held on this life within you, 
and the sensation of health and happiness 
within your own individual life, is aroused, that 
sensation immediately calls your attention to 
tfie fact; and you feel better, or become con- 
scious of being healed. 

It is this quickening and awakening of the 
reconstructing forces of life within the patient 
that does the healing. This quickening and 
awakening of your own spirit, by the suggestion 
given from the mind of the healer, whether the 
suggestion be mental or oral. 

THINGS TO BE) AVOIDED. 

Stop talking about your diseases to any one ; 
stop talking of your troubles to any one. It 
only fixes it in their mind; only centers their 



ii2 Life's Great Healing Law. 

attention upon that which you are desiring to 
free yourself from ; thus making the load just 
that much heavier, for you to carry. 

Besides, when it is learned as a fact, that dis- 
ease is caused by ignorance, we shall soon "be 
ashamed to show our ignorance/ ' 

When it is learned, that faith and fear are 
synonymous, that you fear the disease, because 
you believe or have faith in its power to make 
you suffer — you will cease your fear, or you 
will remove your faith from that which you do 
not want. 

If you would "fear God," you should have 
faith in God to prevent anything from causing 
you trouble, or from making you sick. 

The greatest enemy you can have, is your 
own fear, which is your own Devil. As 
"Faith is the substance of the things hoped for/' 
so fear is the substance of the thing you do not 
desire. As faith is the controlling power in 
man, and is always charged with the Infinite 
creating power of God, so fear being only faith 
in the wrong direction, is charged with this 
same Infinite creative power of the Almighty. 
This shows why "the fear of the Lord, is the 
beginning of wisdom;" because your faith is 
always centered in that which you fear. 



Life's Great Healing Law. n 



o 



You must avoid all conversation of an un- 
happy nature, like disease, sickness and death. 
Avoid the thought and discussion of anything 
and everything, that does not magnify, or is not 
magnifying, the Lord. 

Remember that "an ounce of preventative, 
is worth a pound of cure," and that it is while 
you are well and happy, that you must contin- 
ually make the suggestions to yourself of 
health, strength and happiness 

You should not wait until you feel the pains 
or disease, before beginning to prevent them. 
You should not wait until your house begins 
tumbling about you, before you commence the 
work of strengthening it. With every stroke of 
the hammer, with every thought that you think; 
you should drive a wedge or clinch a nail, that 
will tend to fasten more and more in your con- 
sciousness, the mighty fact, that "your body is 
the temple of God," and that "The Lord is in 
His holy temple." 

ROOTING YOURSELF IN GOD. 

When you think "I cannot take cold, t>e sick, 
or troubled," never forget to state the reason 
why. Always say, because I am life, and I 
must become conscious of being life." In this 
way, by always adding the 'because' to every 



H4 Life's Great Healing Law. 

statement that you make, you are rooting your- 
self in God. 

The 'becauses' are the roots that not only cen- 
tre, but hold you in God, as the roots of a tree 
hold it upright on the earth. 

A tree with but few roots, soon becomes top- 
heavy, and falls. By this same law, the man 
or woman who does not always give God, Life, 
Spirit, Love, as the reason for their standing, 
thus rendering "unto God, the things that are 
God's," must become top-heavy with their own 
importance, and fall. When they find them- 
selves flat, they have only to remember the ad- 
monition that reads: "Let him that thinketh 
he standeth, take heed, lest he fall;" but, one 
who centers every thought in Life, soon learns 
that, "god is able: to make: him stand." 

You can transfer your consciousness from 
matter and sickness, to life and health, only by 
persistently holding yourself there in thought, 
or by compelling your attention to obey you. 

You must constantly insist that the Power 
of God within you, is master of all conditions, 
and with every thought declare thztyou are that 
Power. Instead of saying that you are sick, 
weak, lame, stiff and sore, you must declare 
yourself to be the opposite ; for life is not, and 
never can be sick, weak, lame, stiff or sore ; and 



Life's Great Healing Law. 115 

it is the Truth, as God is true, that you are Life. 
It is God's truth : because He made you, out of 
His own spiritual substance. 

SOWING AND REAPING. 

It is because of the many laws of your being 
which you have been using ignorantly, that you 
are in your present condition. 

You must remember that every thought you 
think, is a seed sown in the soil of your own 
body ; and every seed brings forth after its kind. 
These seeds are not only being sown by you to- 
day, but you have been sowing them daily, for 
many years. 

When you feel a pain, ache, or think the blues 
are taking hold of you, it is not necessarily the 
sprouting of the seed you scattered this morn- 
ing or yesterday, but the coming forth of the 
little germs you planted months, or even years 
ago. 

The aches, pains and diseases that afflict our 
bodies are merely the showing forth, or are the 
results of our past thinking. 

Your garden does not bring forth only the 
flowers, fruit and vegetables that you planted 
in it, but it brings forth all the weeds, thorns 
and thistles, whose germs are in the soil. It is 
your business, if you would have a beautiful 



n6 Life's Great Healing Law. 

garden, to cultivate the soil; planting and al- 
lowing to grow, only the seeds, from which 
you desire to produce more perfect conditions ; 
for "every plant which our Heavenly Father 
hath not planted, shall be rooted up." If you 
do not want certain plants to grow, you must 
stop watering them. You must turn off the 
hose. You must cut them down, or pull them 
up. You must stop thinking of them, and mag- 
nifying them. 

"The word of God is the sword of the spirit," 
and the word of God is always the truth; for 
God can utter only truth. So every thought 
that you think, in direct accordance with the 
truth of your being — and which is the truth 
according to the way your God made you, His 
life within, and His will concerning you — is a 
word of God. The reason why "The word of 
God is quick and powerful, and sharper than 
any two-edged sword," is because it is a Divine 
suggestion. It is instantaneous in its opera- 
tion, not only because of its connection with 
the Law of suggestion, but all power belongs to 
it because of its nature for it is God uttering 
Himself. 

Thus, by learning how to think, in Life, in 
God, you will soon learn to hear God thinking 
in you. "The Lord spake unto him." 



Life's Great Healing Law. 117 

"bear ye one another's burdens/' 

As soon as you become conscious that you 
are personally connected with God, that every 
individual is His child, and that His design is 
to bring forth children in this world for Him- 
self ; you will never hesitate to pray for, or to 
treat, anyone in trouble to whom your atten- 
tion may be called. 

You will always send a helping thought to 
them, or in other words, will lend a helping 
hand to your brother ; thus bearing "one anoth • 
er's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of 
Christ." 

You will not wait for any person to ask you, 
nor to make a bargain, as to the amount and 
kind of pay you are to receive before you are 
willing to help the spirit of God within them to 
come forth in the flesh. 

If you are working for your own personal 
glory, you are not working for God. 

If you are working wholly for certain per- 
sons and not for God, of course you are more 
interested in what they give you. But if you 
are working wholly for God, and not for 
money, and are conscious that God only works 
in and through the people, of course you are 
more interested in Him, and in receiving from 
Him, that which He gives you. 



n8 Life's Great Healing Law. 

All these little selfish tendencies, that we find 
in ourselves, are but finger-boards to point out 
to us the way we are going; whether we are 
serving God or serving Mammon. 

As we learn to depend on God, we will be- 
come independent of all that is external to us. 
The more we depend on that which is external 
to us, for our health, happiness and power, 
the weaker we become in all ; and the less good 
we accomplish. 



CHAPTER XL 
How to Co-Operate With God. 

ATTITUDE AND METHOD. 

Having set forth in this treaties a concise and 
clear statement of the Law, the next step in or- 
der, is to explain the practical attitude and 
method, that will make clear to the mind of the 
student, the process involved. This will also 
give him, not only the direct result of the ap- 
plication, but will enable him to become con- 
scious of the workings of the great Law of 
Life — which is the Law of God. 

It is not only necessary for one to understand 
the law, as set forth in the preceding chapters, 
and recognize the fact that the life controls and 
uses all — that all powers belong to life, and 
that its nature is to perfect all organisms — but 
further, it is necessary in order to heal our- 
selves and others, for us to know how to use 
these principles. 

It is important that we dwell upon these un- 
changeable and all-powerful laws of nature, 



120 Life's Great Healing Law. 

thinking about them, and studying their oper- 
ation in all things; until we fully realize their 
strength and power. It is only in this way, 
that we can become conscious of the power and 
presence pf God. 

The more the individual becomes conscious 
of the presence of this Power, the greater 
power will he possess and be able to use in the 
healing of others. 

ATTITUDE. 

It is by centering ourselves in life that we 
become conscious of life being centered in us. 
And that which we can realize as being true of 
ourselves, is more easily recognized as true of 
others. 

In order to get into the right attitude before 
trying to help another, it is better for the healer, 
or the one who desires to awaken the healing- 
power, to begin by thinking of the Infinite uni- 
versal life within and behind all things, and 
to which all powers belong. Think, then, of 
your own body being filled and flooded with 
this same life, and that you are: this life) 
which is in your own form; and that you are 
connected with, and inseparable from all life, 
that is within every other human form; 



Life's Great Healing Law. 121 

as your breath is connected with and insepara- 
ble from the atmosphere around you. 

You must recognize that God, the Infinite 
Father, is the universal Life, of which your own 
individual life is the child. Then think that 
you are this individual life; and that you are 
not the physical body which you have always 
thought you were. 

You must take this stand then — of the indi- 
vidual talking to the Universal; or, in other 
words, of the God child, talking to the God- 
Father. 

CENTER YOURSELF IN GOD. 

In doing this, you should centre yourself in 
God — way back in deep — in order to look out 
from Him, or through Him into all His other 
children. 

To illustrate : — you do this, in the same way 
that you would centre yourself, if it were possi- 
ble, in the Sun in the Heavens ; if you desired to 
look out through its rays, and' see what it, or 
each ray, was doing. In order to do this, you 
would get way back, deep, into the sun ; with a 
conscious knowledge of your being one with it. 
Conscious that you could manipulate and use 
each individual ray, at will. Conscious that 
you were made out of the very same substance, 



122 Life's Great Healing Law. 

quality, attributes and nature of the sun him- 
self, and that because you were conscious of 
this, you understood that it was the sun dwell- 
ing within you, that did the work; and you 
could in this way realize the fact that in him 
you lived, moved and had your being 

When you think of yourself thus centered 
in the sun, you see that you are not only con- 
nected with the rays that emerge from it, but 
you are in close touch through these rays with 
every part of the universe on which they fall. 
Through this self-conscious knowledge, time 
and space are annihilated ; and you can commu- 
nicate with, talk to and strengthen each indi- 
vidual ray, in proportion to your knowledge 
of its nature, and your own ability to do the 
work desired. 

It is in this way, that you centre yourself in 
God. 

You must always keep in mind the fact, that 
all life is centered in you, and that you are the 
center and the culmination of all life. The very 
centre of your being, is the "Divine Spark," the 
indwelling God; and is that which connects 
you, with the Great Whole. 

It is this Infinite Life, this "spirit of God that 
dwells within you/' that you must centre your- 
self in, or fix your attention upon, in order that 



Life's Great Healing Law. 123 

you may become centered in God. .You must 
shut out all the outer world of matter and every 
material thought before you can retire within 
the inmost depths of your own soul where God 
is always found. 

You can never find or know God, outside of 
your own soul. 

You can never touch or affect the God in an- 
other, from the outside of yourself. 

You must first enter your own life— enter 
into the secret place of the Most High, which 
is within yourself, before you can consciously 
co-operate with God. 

Your own spirit is the only door, through and 
by which you can enter into the Universal Life. 

Your own spirit says to you "I am the Door : 
by me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved, 
and shall go in and out and find pasture." 

When you are centered in your owu life, cen- 
tered in your own God, you are centered in the 
God of all. You are thus in direct touch and 
conjunction with the life or spirit, in every 
other individual. You can then talk to them 
mentally, telling the God within each, the abso- 
lute truth about itself, and its ability to do and 
be; holding your attention upon it until the 
knowledge of these truths are realized by the 
individual or by the patient. 



124 Life's Great Healing Law. 

As the sun shines on the just and the unjust 
alike, so God shines in the just and the unjust 
alike. The sun is the light without, while God 
is the Light within. 

The only work for each individual is to be- 
come conscious of this shining, and learn to fol- 
low this inner Light. 

To repeat, it is by centering the thought in 
God, or in the Life, that is within and behind all 
things, thus becoming connected with all 
things, that does away with time and space to 
the individual. 

The law also is, "Whatsoever is bound on 
earth is bound in Heaven, and whatsoever is 
loosed on earth is loosed in Heaven." This 
binding and loosing is only in consciousness, 
and is connected with the law of "As your faith, 
so be it unto you." 

Expressed in another way, it means, if we 
believe that God can do only so much with us, 
or we can do only so much with Him, the In- 
finite Creative Power, sees to it that we are 
bound, right where we place our limitations 
While, if we believe that God can do all things 
with and through us, or that "I can do all 
things through Christ which strengtheneth 
me," the same Infinite Creative Power in 
Heaven sees to it that we are unbound or loos- 



Life's Great Healing Law. 125 

ened from where we remove our limitations. 

Thus, in talking to God, we must come in 
the attitude of child to parent ; not as an imper- 
fect, "crawling worm of the dust," but as the 
perfect child of a perfect Father; and admit 
that because of the laws of heredity, the child 
must inherit all the perfections of its All Per- 
fect Father. 

The perfect child, asking its Father to re- 
mind it of, or to teach it of the wisdom and 
love, life, health and power, that it had with 
God the Infinite Life, before the world was. 



CHAPTER XII. 
Divine Suggestions. 

DIVINE SUGGESTIONS. 

Oh thou Almighty God, my Father, glorify 
thou me, with the glory which I had with thee 
before the world was. 

Magnify thou me with the Wisdom, Light 
and Love which I had with Thee before the 
world was. 

Reveal Thou Thyself to me in all things, in 
all beings, and on all planes. Open thou me, 
that I may see in thee all that thou hast made, 
and that I may see in that thou hast made only 
thee. "Holy! Holy!! Holy!!! Lord God Al- 
mighty, as it was in the beginning, is now, and 
ever shall be." 

Thou art my Father, and I am Thy child. 
Thou art my God ; I am Thy son. Thou art my 
life, my love, my hope, my glory, and I am Thy 
living one, Thy loving one, Thy hopeful one, 
and Thy glorified one. 

I am Thy perfect child, exactly as Thou 



Life's Great Healing Law. 127 

didst make me. Perfect, because I am com- 
posed of thine own substance, elements and na- 
ture. 

All that I am and have I received from thee. 
All that I am and shall be, comes from thee. 
Because of what I am, because of what thou 
art, I stand before Thee, perfect as Thou art 
perfect. 

But this perfection, this light, this love, this 
health, strength, vitality and power that Thou 
hast given me, that came to me from Thee, I 
must live and give to the world. Hence, I 
stand before the world shielded and protected 
by Thy love ; vivified and strengthened by Thy 
power, illuminated and enlightened by Thy 
wisdom, healed and perfected by Thy life. 

No dart from the enemy can touch me, be- 
cause I am shielded by Thy love. No evil 
thoughts, from any being, in Heaven above, or 
in the earth beneath, or in the regions under the 
earth, can faze or affect me, because of this In- 
finite shield that surrounds and protects me. 
No fear can open the gates to admit anything 
contrary to Thyself. I have no fear, for Thou 
art with me, and I realize that "perfect love 
casteth out fear." 

As I am filled so full of the Infinite love of 



128 Life's Great Healing Law. 

Thyself, there is no room for anything but 
Thee. 

I fear no disease or inharmony known to 
man, by whatever name it may be called. 

I fear no accidents, no troubles ; nothing that 
the so-called "flesh is heir to," can affect or eat 
up my flesh while I know that the infinite love 
of God, not only surrounds and infills it, but 
permeates every atom of it, thus penetrating 
and inflating every part and portion of my en- 
tire being; for this love is life, and this life is 
God, working. God, the infinite, omnipotent, 
omniscient and omnipresent Power: loving, 
working, abiding, dwelling within: filling me 
so full of Himself that naught else can enter: 
and thus I not only radiate His love, but I ra- 
diate His health also. 

My head, brain, throat, lungs, liver, heart, 
kidneys, bladder, spleen, bowels, in fact, every 
organ and function of my entire being is oper- 
ated and acted upon by this Infinite dynamic 
power of God. 

Every function of my being is a God func- 
tion. No weakness about it. The function of 
every organ is performed absolutely by God 
Himself. The digesting, assimilating, appro- 
priating, restoring and renewing process is done 
by His own hand, and under the supervision 



Life's Great Healing Law. 129 

and guidance of His own eye. No foods that I 
take into the system of this body, that I might 
want, can in any way interfere or impede in the 
slightest degree this work of the Almighty. 
Nothing but my own faith, in its power over 
me, and over Him, can "give me indigestion." 

I see every organ filled, infused and flooded 
with this omnipresent, omnipotent healing, 
strengthening and vitalizing power of God ; and 
I can only feel what I fix my attention upon. 

I am master of all circumstances and environ- 
ments when I live at the centre of all life. I can 
control and move all things, according to the 
infinite desire within myself, as fast as I know 
His will concerning me. 

There is no lack or poverty or want in my 
realm : for all things are mine, when I abide in 
the consciousness of ownership, of dominion 
over all. "Peace, plenty and prosperity are 
within my walls," and success on every line of 
undertaking; with the consciousness of abund- 
ance and to spare. 

I am led, controlled and moved to do only 
that which will lead me into better conditions 
by the Infinite wisdom that is ever working with 
me and watching over me. 

"The peace that passeth all understanding 
fills my soul/' and "I sleep the sleep of the 



130 Life's Great Healing Law. 

just," compelled and held in sleep by the infin- 
ite hand of the Almighty. No nervousness or 
indigestion, no cough, cold, asthma, or so- 
called bronchial affection, or any other foolish 
reasoning can interfere with me or make me 
afraid. 

Infinite health, perfect love, and absolute har- 
mony, fills me and floods me. 

I will allow nothing that is external to me to 
come into my consciousness, or take possession 
of me. 

I stand the supreme master of all states and 
conditions, both external and internal to my 
body, mind and soul ; for I am the mighty be- 
ing, the Infinite one of the Most High. 

1 AM LIFE. 

Because of this, I illuminate and purify my 
soul. 

I enlighten and enlarge my mind. 

I strengthen and heal my body ; and yet, not 
I, "but the Father dwelling within me; He 
doeth the work;" for "there is no power but 
one, and that is God." 

This Infinite Power, operating and working 
within me, is the dominion which God has 
given me ; and by and through the use of it, I 
shall manifest to the world all that I am. With 
Thy power as my power, consciously using it, 



Life's Great Healing Law. 131 

I shall become as Thou art, the master of all 
conditions and environments. 

In Thine own Wisdom, in Thine own Light* 
under the direction, guidance and control of 
Thyself, I will come forth — I am coming forth 
in the world — perfect as Thou art perfect ; for 
Thy Light and Wisdom illumiries my entire be- 
ing. 

All the clouds of darkness, doubt, worry, 
anxiety, disbelief or fear, melt before Thy Light 
and disappear as the dew before the rising sun. 

All preconceived opinions, narrow concep- 
tion, bigoted affirmations, wrong ideas, will be 
revealed to me as no part of Thee; and drop 
from me as quickly, as easily, as the rain from 
the clouds in the springtime. 

I know that in Thee I can do all things. 

I know that by and through Thee I shall be 
all that Thou wouldst have me to be, for "I and 
the Father are One." 

"And now, O Father, glorify Thou me with 
Thine own self, with the glory which I had 
with Thee before the world was." 
So Let it Be. 
( By changing the pronoun, you can use 
the above as a treatment for others. 



132 Life's Great Healing Law. 

THE MISSION OF PAIN. 

When the realization of the Truth of these 
Divine Suggestions takes possession of the in- 
dividual, there is a great change in conscious- 
ness experienced. This centering of the at- 
tention in the Life, for the purpose of healing 
all manner of disease, is, of course, a great 
thing for every one, because sickness is never 
desirable. No one enjoys suffering, although 
pain is a necessity. It is necessary in this way. 
Pain always reveals to us that there is a de- 
ranged condition in the vital processes of life, 
within the human structure. Pain warns us 
that something is wrong; and this is its divine- 
ly ordained mission. 

If it were not for pain, the disease would 
eat up the flesh ; disable and derange the entire 
organism, before we could know that there was 
anything wrong. Many times the entire sys^ 
tern would be clogged, and the whole machin- 
ery completely stopped, were it not for this 
honest messenger of pain, which, in its earn- 
est endeavor to save and protect the whole or- 
ganism, has been condemned and abused ; 'for 
its pains.' 

It is utterly impossible for any human being, 
to feel pain, where there is no life. The object 
of the pain then, is but to call the individual's 



Life's Great Healing Law. 13^5 

attention to the fact that there is something 
wrong, and that he must call this Infinite heal- 
ing power of God into action to restore har- 
mony, for it is everywhere present throughout 
the entire body. It is there to heal, restore 
and perfect ; but it, like all of the other forces, 
faculties, functions, powers and senses of man's 
entire nature, is under his control. 

You must remember that for years and 
years, you have been sowing the seeds which 
produce all of these deranged conditions: 
which obstruct the flow of the blood, shatter', 
the nerves, exhausts the brain-force, weakens 
and deranges all of the different organs, and 
interferes in every conceivable way, with every 
line of action, throughout the entire being of 
man. 

You have no right to feel disappointed or 
become discouraged, when you commence the 
work of repairing, restoring, healing and per- 
fecting your own body, until you have worked 
at this reconstructing process as faithfully as 
you have in the past years, worked on the de- 
structive lines. Because you see the truth, in 
regard to what you really are, does not signify 
that it will be externalized instantly. 

Seeing food on the table, does not produce 
flesh on your bones. The food must be eaten 



134 Life's Great Healing Law. 

by you ; it must be taken into the stomach and 
digested, assimilated throughout the system, 
and appropriated by every part of the entire 
structure to which it belongs; before it be- 
comes "flesh of your flesh, and bone of your 
bones/' 

RECOGNITION AND REALIZATION. 

In exactly this same way, before the truths 
which you see, can be externalized in your con- 
sciousness, you must perceive or recognize 
them as true. You must dwell upon them, 
think about them, until you understand all the 
reasons for their being true. This understand- 
ing gives you the knowledge, the faith in their 
reality, which causes you to realize their truth, 
or to become absolutely conscious that they are 
true. 

There is as great a distinction between recog- 
nition and realization as there is between recog- 
nizing that the food is on the table, and realiz- 
ing the strength and flesh which is produced 
through your having eaten it. 

When we see how little we know of the work- 
ings of God, and how much is to be learned by 
us, before we can become all that we desire to 
be, we have only to remember that as fast as 
we are ready for new truths, or for new light 
on any subject, it will be given us. 



Life's Great Healing Lcms. 135 

Our work is to do the eating or correct think- 
ing, digesting, or right actions, assimilating 
and appropriating, which is accomplished 
through living the life, as God intended that 
we should. The growth of consciousness 
must, in this way, be fed, nourished and 
strengthened, as the growth of the body is fed, 
nourished and strengthened. This perfect and 
healthy growth of consciousness, can be at- 
tained only by the individual, using every fac- 
ulty of the mind to produce it ; as every func- 
tion and organ of the body must be used, in 
order to produce a perfect and healthy growth 
of the body. 

You must not simply remember all the laws 
that have been given in this book, but you must 
reason everything out for yourself; using 
your own judgment as to where they belong 
and how to use them ; what you need and how 
you are to act; listening all the time to the 
promptings of your own highest nature, and 
deciding everything by the Light of this Infin- 
ite Life within your own soul. 

"ye must be born again/' 

The change of physical consciousness in re- 
lation to the healing of the body, experienced 
by each one while studying on these lines, can 
hardly be compared with the mighty change 



136 Life's Great Healing Law. 

that takes place within the individual when the 
Divine consciousness of what he is, as Life 
itself, is aroused and awakened within him. 
This change is the greatest that has ever been 
experienced by man ; for through it he becomes 
conscious within himself, that he is an Infinite 
being, and knows that this Infinite conscious- 
ness will broaden and expand until his doing 
corresponds with his being. 

There is no illustration that explains so clear- 
ly to the mind of the reader, this change in con- 
sciousness, as that of the chick hatching from 
the egg. 

There are years and years of the individual's 
life, when this higher consciousness lies latent 
or dormant, — when nothing but the common 
mortal or human life is apparent, — as there are 
weeks and months that the chick lies latent or 
dormant in the egg, because the process by 
which the egg is to be transformed into the 
chick, has not yet begun. 

Suppose, if it were possible for the egg to be 
conscious of being an egg, then, when the in- 
cubating process commenced, it would also be 
conscious of a change taking place within itself ; 
although it might not know what that change 
was. Neither could there be any conscious- 
ness of limitation felt within the chick, until 



Life's Great Healing Law. 137 

after the transformation of the egg into itself, 
had taken place, when the sensation of limita- 
tion would be the strongest. 

It is the growing and the expanding of the 
little chick, that causes the shell or its limita- 
tions, to be broken ; and it steps out into a new 
world, (and yet it is the very same world,) 
with its little body filled full of the many liv- 
ing powers, forces and functions, which it 
could not have imagined before, of ever being 
able to possess. Its consciousness of being a 
perfect little chick, as it steps from the shell, 
would not be the consciousness that is yet to be 
acquired through using all of its new powers; 
for it must eat and walk, run and fly, grow and 
develop all of that which pertains to its new 
nature. 

The human race, is to-day, like so many 
eggs, — placed here and there, — bought and 
sold, — handled and used by circumstances, — 
"under the law," because controlled by, or 
"servants of the law." 

BE YE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN 
HEAVEN IS PERFECT. 
As you, through this transforming process, 
become conscious that you are Life, the sensa- 
tion of limitation is broken, and drops from 
you the same as the shell drops from the chick. 



138 Life's Great Healing Law. 

You then stand forth, conscious of your own 
Divinity. Conscious that you are the very Life 
itself, that you have always known was embod- 
ied w T ithin your own human form. Conscious 
that you are unlimited on every line and in 
every direction ; because you are connected with 
all Life. Conscious that you are composed of 
a spiritual essence and substance, which no 
disease can affect or touch. Conscious that 
you are master of all your own conditions and 
environments. Conscious that you are the Son 
of God; and that nothing conceivable to man 
can interfere with you, or retard the work 
which you know that you must accomplish. 

Instead bf feeling that something or some- 
body can impede your progress, you know that 
everything under the sun, and that God Him- 
self, is not only working for, but with you, in 
the perfection and culmination of your highest 
desires and ideals. You are then, no longer 
"under the law, but under grace/ ' 

The "Grace of God" is the unlimited and 
omnipotent functions, forces and powers of the 
Almighty, which you must become conscious of 
possessing. 

You should not think that the attainment of 
this Divine consciousness is impossible for man, 
because those doubts all tend to retard the 



Life's Great Healing Law. 139 

transforming process, within yourself alone. 
You must be "confident of this very thing, that 
He ivhich hath begun a good work in you, will 
perform it, until the day of Jesus Christ" or, 
until you are as perfect a Divine human, as He 
was. 

Remember, the principal difference in the il- 
lustration of the transformation of the chick 
within the shell and yourself, is the difference 
in consciousness. Your transformation is 
wholly in consciousness. That is, you are 
conscious of being transformed, while the chick 
is not. Others looking upon you from without, 
unless they are in this same process, can know 
nothing of the change that is taking place with- 
in you. 

Remember, also, that if it were not possible 
for this change to take place within men, it 
would be impossible for any one to conceive of 
the plan or to desire it; much less to under- 
stand and know the law, by which it is to be 
brought about, or attained. 

Life's Great Healing Law is only one of the 
branches of this Infinite Tree of Life, which 
is very different from the "Tree of knowledge 
of good and evil," of which Humanity has 
been so persistently eating, for lo ! these thous- 
ands of years. 



140 Life's Great Healing Law. 

The 'Flaming Sword' of Truth that 'turns 
every way to protect this Tree of Life' is being 
recognized and understood by man; and the 
"Cherubims are seen to be the Divine beings, 
which must be recognized as living within every 
soul, if man would enter Life, take of the fruit 
of this Tree, eat, and Live Forever. 



THE END. 



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